This Experience Has Served Me
Isn’t it enjoyable to see good people do good work? We are blessed to have a strong team of impressive individuals at our foundation company. Our team has a nice blend of people in different stages of their lives, and their careers. To be successful, we need a mix of new learners, skilled workers, coordinators, […]
Visible Pour Lines – Are They A Problem?
This article was originally written for and published in Concrete Contractor magazine by ForConstructionPros.com on May 16, 2014. What to do when customers worry the pour line is a crack in their new concrete. Question: A recent project we were completing was held up when our homeowner ventured to the site to see the […]
Exciting Business Opportunity Available for Enthusiastic Self Starter
Exciting Business Opportunity Available for Enthusiastic Self Starter Western Forms, the world’s leading innovator, manufacturer, and supplier of aluminum concrete forming systems is seeking a Regional Sales Representative for the Northeastern United States. Responsibilities: • Work personally with concrete contractors and dealers. • Manage current and new business, demonstrating how your customers can reduce costs […]
Precise Forms Announces Retirement of Vice President, Jim Crain
After 45 years of industry service, Crain sets sights on a new future June 11, 2014 – Bates City, Missouri Precise Forms, Inc., manufacturer of aluminum cast-in-place concrete forming products and accessories, proudly announces changes to its leadership with the retirement of long-time Vice President of Sales & Marketing, Jim Crain. “It is […]
CFA Foundation Fundamentals
Positive Drainage…Curing Compound…Fluid Pressure? What were those words the foundation contractor used during our meeting yesterday? Construction projects, like so many other business endeavors, are not without communication problems between parties. Many are associated with terminology that is common to the contractor, yet distinctly foreign to the customer or owner. Although the following list of […]
OSHA’s National Safety Stand-Down for Fall Prevention
OSHA is promoting a national Safety Stand-Down during the week of June 2-6, 2014 in an effort to raise awareness among employers and workers in the construction industry about the hazards of falls. The Concrete Foundation Association (CFA), www.cfawalls.org, fully supports the program and strongly encourages all of its member companies to participate in this awareness […]
Responsibilities for all personnel on a concrete pour are now specified in ASME B30-2014
The American National Standard for material placement system safety is ASME B30.27. (Material placement systems are concrete pumps and concrete conveyors.) ASME has released B30.27-2014. It is currently available as an electronic download and as a printed booklet. The date of issuance was March 26, 2014. It becomes effective one year after the date of […]
Contractor’s Footing-Form Innovation Becomes a Competitive Advantage
Published by Concrete Contractor Magazine, April 23, 2014 In the early 1990s Barry Herbert, then president of Otsego, Mich.,-based concrete contractor Herbert Construction Co., learned an alternative method for forming footings. Barry spoke with Ron Colvin, a concrete contractor from Berrien Springs, Mich. about footing construction. The two had become friends through their membership with the Concrete Foundations Association of North […]
Marketing Corner: Building Your New Marketing Program
Q&A WITH NORTHERN CONCRETE Leveraging digital media and relationships may be about as far from your mindset as a concrete contractor as is venturing into new market such as high-rise core construction. The complex world of Google, Yahoo, facebook, LinkedIn, twitter, instagram, Pinterest and a host of others has for many turned competent and savvy […]
OSHA Whistleblower Investigations
Employers need to make sure their policies and practices do not violate the law by Jim Rogers, jimrogers@asu.edu As contractors, we are all aware of OSHA and its role in protecting the health and safety of our workforce. Many contractors send their personnel to receive training related to record keeping requirements and job site regulations; however, one area that is often […]
