The Orchard, a luxury condominium project in Chicago, was honored with the Precast/Prestressed Concrete Institute’s 2022 Sidney Freedman Craftsmanship Award.

The Precast/Prestressed Concrete Institute honored many industry leaders who have made significant contributions to the precast, prestressed concrete industry at its 2022 PCI Committee Days Conference in Rosemont, Ill., September 20-24.

The Precast/Prestressed Concrete Insitute’s new Precast Protects Life website is live. The site provides a wide array of information and resources about precast concrete’s resilient properties.

Proprietary concrete mix offers the same performance as traditional mixes, with significantly less carbon-laden cement.                                  

The submission site for the 2023 PCI Design Awards is now open! The PCI Design Awards program recognizes design excellence and construction quality using precast concrete.

This includes Core Sixth Edition, Roofing Level 1 Second Edition and Concrete Construction Levels 1 and 2 Second Edition.

Simpson Gumpertz & Heger’s Applied Science & Research Center recently received ISO/IEC17025 accreditation from the American Association for Laboratory Accreditation for several concrete testing methods.

A neglected 1960s concrete office tower was recently transformed into The Cosmopolitan, a modern architectural landmark in the “EU capital” of Brussels.

The Precast/Prestressed Concrete Institute has elected Matt DeVoss as its 2022 chair. DeVoss is president of Jackson Precast in Jackson, Miss. This was just one highlight of a successful 2022 PCI Convention in Kansas City, Mo., March 1-5.

The project involved the exterior restoration and interior gut renovation of a 230,000-ft² historic landmark structure, with the addition of a 60,000-ft² spherical glass and concrete structure to house the 1000-seat David Geffen theater.