Greetings!
 Back to School! For some a jump for joy, for others a anxious first day of kindergarten! Regardless, the kids will all be back to routines, homework and activities! For us in construction, it's nose to the grindstone. Work like crazy while it's good and get as much done before the cold weather sets in. Please watch out for the kids on the streets headed to school and home. |
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Call for Entries for the 2013 Concrete Awards
 CPG Excellence in Concrete Awards
September 16, 2013, Deadline for Entries
Click Here to pay the Entry Fee online with a credit card
The Excellence in Concrete Awards Program and the CPG Membership Holiday Party will be held on November 12, 2013.
SAVE THE DATE, November 12, 2013
CPG's Annual Holiday Party
and Excellence in Concrete Awards!
NEW LOCATION! The event will be held at Simply Unique Events, 13030 Shawnee Mission Parkway, Shawnee Mission, KS 66216. No parking garages, plenty of free parking and we'll have the entire place to ourselves. |
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Did you know that ACI 318 is Changing in 2014?
 ACI 318-14 Lunch Presentation September 12, 2012 11 am to approx. 1 pm Univeristy of Missouri, Kansas City
Student Union, Room #302
Join in a Lunch Meeting for a one hour presentation on the reorganized ACI 318-14 by Doug Sordyl. Doug is the Managing Director of the Strategic Development Council and the Managing Director of Marketing, Sales & Industry Relations for the American Concrete Institute.
Huge changes are coming for ACI 318. 318 is the back bone for Building Code Requirements for Structural Concrete. Specifiers, Code Officials, Concrete Industry Personnel are all invited.
Click Here to find out more information and register for the event. |
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Municipal Concrete Paving, Parking Lot
& Flatwork Seminar
Save the Date:
November 7, 2013
8 am to 4 pm
Ritz Charles Conference Center
Overland Park, KS
Previously called the Concrete Streets and Local Roads Seminar. This event is for anyone with an interest in municipal concrete flatwork whether it be inside or outside. Intended for municipal staff, engineering firms, engineers, contractors, concrete industry etc.
Hosted by the MO/KS American Concrete Pavement Association and the Concrete Promotional Group.
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2013 Midwest Concrete Restoration Conference
 Restoration of Architectural
& Historic Concrete October 6-7, 2013 Lied Lodge & Conference Center Nebraska City, NE
A Joint Presentation of the Great Plains Chapter of ICRI, and the APT Central Plains Chapter. This a new endeavor the association are hoping to make an annual event. Click Here to find out more on their website. |
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Updated-New Pervious Concrete Information
Specifiers Guide to Pervious Concrete in Kansas City v 1.3.13. (Updated August 2013)
Handbook to Pervious Concrete Certification in Kansas City, (Updated August 2013) A companion piece to the Specifiers Guide and the Certification Program. Click Here to save it to your reference library.
So what's new? Brief Summary:
New in Pervious Mix Design Options:
- Water/cement ratio ranges .30 -.35
- Prewetted light weight fine aggregates for an internal curing option
- Super absorbent polymers as an internal curing option
- The possibility of using 1/3 to 1/2 the original admixtures when using internal curing options
New in Pervious Construction:
- Saw cutting the joints with a conventional concrete saw (with some limitations, see the details in the spec and handbook)
- Not using poly sheeting for curing when using one of the two internal curing options AND the ambient temperatures are < 90 degrees and > 40 degrees for the next 7 days
- Substituting soy bean oil cure for a typical cure & seal when using one of the two internal curing options
- Using a densifier as a spray cure when using an internal curing method (densifier as used in polished concrete)
- Using a densifier as when there might be surface delamination present on an aged existing pervious pavement
Note: There have been and currently are several new pervious concrete installations in the area this year, Northgate Senior Living, Molle Volkswagon, Bancroft Parking Lot, & KU Lot 54,
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Have you seen our Facebook Page?
 CPG is working hard to keep fresh updates on our Facebook Page. Please go to our Concrete Promotional Group Page and LIKE us. Take the time to see what we've been adding to the page. Do you have a great picture of concrete in the Kansas City Metro Area? It can be a historical picture or a current job under construction. We are always looking for great concrete projects to show off. Send the photo to our office. We try to keep something new on the page at least once a week. |
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Single Pour Concrete Homes, Thomas Edison
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John Lee. |
If you are interested in Concrete Homes there a wonderful website you would like, Click Here. The internet site is a blog: Thomas A. Edison's Beautiful Failure, by Christine Adam Beckett.
With this concrete home prototype, Edison felt he held the key to urban and suburban development. At the time the New York City slums were bursting at the seams with immigrants from every corner of the globe.
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"303 North Mountain Avenue was built in 1912 with reinforced concrete. A giant mold was erected, steel rods set in place, and floor by floor, the concrete was poured, dried, and stripped of its mold to reveal a complete house. The process would only take a few weeks and everything could be included in the molds: even shingles, bathtubs, and picture frames. Brennan's home features a molded concrete fireplace and a basement resembling a grotto with its arched, swooping ceiling. A strip of wood into a molded concave groove at the edge of every room was in the original mold, to allow for carpeting installation, or in his case, hard wood floors."
Unfortunately, the concrete home was one of Edison's failures. At the time an average home cost $4000, he sold the concrete home package for $1200. The downfall was that the contractor had a huge investment in forms and equipment to produce the homes. A few of these prototype homes are still around in Monclair and Union, New Jersey.
Source: Thomas A. Edison's Beautiful Failure, by Christine Adam Beckett. |
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July Construction Price Indices
Year-to-year, the steel producer price index (PPI) continued to decline in July, with a 6.1 percent drop compared to 2012. However, the steel index does seem to be slowing in its decline compared to the first half of 2013. Asphalt was down 0.8 percent, and concrete rose 3.2 percent, compared to July 2012. The lumber PPI again rose by double-digits, a streak not broken since December. It was up 11.7 percent from 2012 values.
On a month-over-month basis, lumber was down slightly, 1 percent, while the rest of the competitive materials showed marginal increases. Steel rose 0.4 percent, concrete rose 0.5 percent, and asphalt climbed the most since June at 0.7 percent.
Source: Portland Cement Association
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CPG Mission Statement:
The Concrete Promotional Group is a trade association to support the local construction community in the use of quality concrete construction means and methods. It provides education, reference material and sales/marketing support to the professional community.
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CONCRETE PROMOTIONAL GROUP
Staff, Officers, Board of Directors, Committee Chairmen
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