The Slag Cement Association announced the addition of Texas Lehigh Cement Company as its newest member company. Texas Lehigh will be starting production at a new slag cement facility in Houston, Texas this summer.

The PCI Design Awards program recognizes design excellence and construction quality using precast concrete. 

The educational event, held on April 29 and April 30, featured technical presentations on the benefits of slag cement in concrete design and construction, as well as sustainability tools and resources available to the concrete industry.

The Northeast chapter of the Precast/Prestressed Concrete Institute has named Sarah Patrie, PE, as its new executive director. In her new role, Patrie will advance PCI’s marketing, technical, and educational efforts in New England and New York State.

The Slag Cement Association announced the addition of CalPortland as its newest member company. CalPortland, the largest building materials company in the western United States, now joins SCA.

LATICRETE will debut their new color-coordinated profiles and trims while also providing insight and perspective on the state of the tile and stone market, finishes, and more as an exhibitor at Coverings 2024.

Eleven construction projects from across the United States were chosen to showcase the broad applications of slag cement and its impact on creating more durable and sustainable concrete.

NEU: An ACI Center of Excellence for Carbon Neutral Concrete—with a mission to drive education, awareness, and adoption of carbon-neutral concrete materials and technologies—announced the detailed plans for $6B of investments in the U.S. industrial sector by the U.S. Department of Energy.

AltusGroup, the organization of leading North American precasters dedicated to innovation through collaboration, is seeking qualified applicants for the executive director role in advance of the February 2025 retirement of John Carson.

A new Isokorb structural thermal break for concrete parapets employs Glass Fiber Reinforced Polymer bars to further reduce thermal conductivity between external and heated internal concrete structures, while simplifying installation.