American Concrete Pumping Association Unveils Job Site Safety Campaign at World Of Concrete

Español | Translation Provided by the CFA This week at World of Concrete, the concrete industry’s largest annual gathering, the American Concrete Pumping Association (ACPA) launched a major safety campaign to bring heightened awareness to ASME B30.27, the Safety Standard for Material Placement Systems. The campaign highlights the responsibilities of each trade working with or […]

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Is Your Company’s Practice to Plan for Top Employee Retention?

Español | Translation Provided by the CFA By Bill Humbert,  RecruiterGuy.com  When your company is lucky, employee retention simply happens. However, there is never really a “simply happens.” Obviously, your company is operating in a manner that retains your best employees. Congratulations! Over the past few weeks, I have spoken with several of the CFA […]

2022 PROJECTS OF THE YEAR

Español | Translation Provided by the CFA SETTING A CULTURE OF PRIDE The North American landscape continues to hide the most creative and challenging concrete installations each year. Now in its 23rd year, this program continues with its vision to give voice and expression to the great work completed every day throughout the markets that […]

Concrete Foundations Association Drives Workforce Development as Advocate for the Trades

The Concrete Foundations Association (CFA) is excited to announce the completion of a national campaign designed to promote workforce development and career opportunities in the concrete construction industry.   CFA worked with Viewpoint, a unique educational platform, to develop the campaign.  For almost two decades the development team behind ViewPoint, with host Dennis Quaid, has […]

Old Thinking Won’t Lead to New Ideas 5 Tips to Instantly Become More Innovative

By Susan Robertson Español | Translation Provided by the CFA When you really need new ideas or fresh thinking or a creative solution to a challenge, a typical, day-to-day approach in your thinking is not the optimal process. Using the same old thinking will simply lead you to the same old ideas you’ve already had […]

WALL FOREMAN QUALIFICATION SYLLABUS

Español | Translation Provided by the CFA In 2020, the CFA Board of Directors created a Strategic Plan to focus Association energy for the next few years.  This plan identified education as a primary need for field workers and a formalized plan to qualify training for the wall foreman as a key opportunity.  Working with […]

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New IRC Equivalency Evaluation Report Program Streamlines Building Permit Process by Offering Prescriptive Design

Español | Translation Provided by the CFA Brea, CA – An innovative new offering from ICC Evaluation Service (ICC-ES), an IRC Equivalency Evaluation Report (EER), indicates the findings of a particular end use application or design of a building product, evaluated by ICC-ES, for compliance with the prescriptive requirements of the International Residential Code® (IRC). […]