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Hub Construction Specialties, Inc. 
is a Federally Recognized 
Veteran Owned Small Business
 
 
October 2013 
 
 
Autumn is Upon Us!
 
         
               Serving the Construction Industry Since 1958
 

 

 

 
Starting January 1, 2014, most Americans will be required to have health insurance or pay a fine. It's part of President Obama's Affordable Care Act. Whether you love it, hate it or are just plain confused, the ACA is the law of the land. The thousand-page law covers a lot of ground and figuring out what part of it has to do with you can be a challenge.
 
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PCA Says Growth to Continue

 
According to the latest forecast from the Portland Cement Association, cement consumption will increase a modest four percent in 2013, but will approach double-digit growth in 2014 and 2015, with 9.7 percent consumption increases in both years.
 
For more of this story, please click  "HERE" 
California high-speed-rail groundbreaking 
pushed back another few months
 
All year, the state billed the summer of 2013 as the season when California's biggest-ever public works project -- a $69 billion high-speed rail line -- would finally leave the station with a groundbreaking that has been decades in the making.    
 
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Developing Your Stormwater 
Pollution Prevention Plan 
A Guide for Construction Sites


This document provides guidance to construction site operators that need to prepare a SWPPP in order to 

receive NPDES permit coverage for their stormwater discharges. The Clean Water Act provisions, EPA regulations and EPA's Construction General Permit described in this document contain legally binding requirements.
 
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U.S. Environmental Protection Agency Guide
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U.S. E.P.A. SWPPP Template,
please click "HERE"
 
Please call your nearest HUB location to find the
Stormwater Polution Prevention Products 
You Need!
Nonresidential Construction Index Reaches Highest Score Since Q1 2009

 

 While the 2013 Q3 Nonresidential Construction Index report only saw a 0.2 point improvement over Q2, the score still remains the highest since Q1 2009

 

 
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Major roadway work for BART extension begins, closes thoroughfares in Milpitas

 
Santa Clara Valley Trans-portation Authority on Sunday began major roadway construction that includes lane closures on thoroughfares in Milpitas and North San Jose. The work will advance the 
$2.3-billion Bay Area Rapid Transit Silicon Valley Berryessa Extension expected to be up and running by 2017.
 
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DO YOU KNOW ?

the TOP 10 TILT-UPS

 (Records for size. weight, and number of tilt-up panels.)

 

Do you know what the largest footprint tilt up is?

Do you know what the tallest panel is?

 

To see the Top 10, please click  "HERE" 

New eastern Bay Bridge 
used green concrete 
to lessen environmental impact
 
Among the high praise the Bay Bridge's new eastern span has received for engineering and design is another significant achievement: 
a lower carbon footprint than its predecessor. 

To read the rest of the story, please click  "HERE" 

 

Concrete placement done at 

Calif.'s Transbay Transit Center; 

 

If you missed the transit center's big concrete pour - 80 concrete mixers lined up from Friday night until midday Saturday - there's plenty more to come. Similar sessions will be held every three or four weeks until the bathtub-like frame for the underground section of the terminal is complete - and that's at least 15 overnight pours away.
  

  For more of this story, please click "HERE" 

 
Comedy Corner
 Proof 
A homeless man solicits a passerby for some spare cash. 
 
The passerby asks, "Will you buy booze with it?" 
The homeless man says, "No."

  

The passerby asks, "Will you gamble it away?"
The homeless man says, "No."

  

The passerby asks, "Will you go to the golf course?"

The homeless mans, "Of course Not."

 
Then the passerby asks, 
"Well, if I give you some money, will you come home with me so my wife can see what happens to a man who doesn't drink, gamble, or play Golf?"
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Product of the Month
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JUST 4 FUN 
 
STATES AND WHAT THEY ARE FAMOUS FOR  
 
 
CALIFORNIA....
Its economy is so large that if it were a country, it would rank seventh in the entire world.

 To see what the other 49 states are famous for, Please click  "HERE"   
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In This Issue
Obamacare Explained
PCA Says Growth to Continue
Calif. H.S.R. delayed futher.
Developing Your Stormwater Plan
Non-Res. Construction Index reaches high.
Roadwork for BART extension begins.
Transbay Transit Center
Comedy Corner
Product of the Month
Just 4 Fun
$85 Million added to Port of Long Beach
CA Ethanol project approved.
Words to Live By
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Fastest Trowel on the Block
2013 Competition
October 12, 2013



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$85 Million Added to 
Port of Long Beach's
Middle Harbor Price Tag.  

 

Port staff is projecting additional overruns of $85 million to the Middle Harbor Redevelopment Project budget due to construction challenges and underestimated project costs. The Middle Harbor project was already $29.5 million over the original budget of $1.2 billion as of June.  

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CA Ethanol and Power Project approved by Board of Supervisors 

 

The California Ethanol and Power Project is moving forward with its plan to generate clean fuel from sugar cane and sweet sorghum.

Imperial County Board of Supervisors approved seven resolutions Tuesday dealing with water, zoning, permitting and other major issues concerning the project.

 
 
For more of this story, please click "HERE"

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"Words to Live By"
 
Never say anything bad about a man until you have walked a mile in his shoes.

By then he's a mile away, you've got his shoes, and you can say whatever you want.

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