Week 8 with the adventures of Concrete Dom 1 and Dom 2 crossing the states of Connecticut and Rhode Island! 👷♂️ 🚘
Friday started with a visit to our Torrington concrete skate park project. I met the new arrivals of the great crew at New Line Skateparks and handed out some T's and hats. We then headed out to Thomaston with Chico State CIM intern Dominic Lencioni.
[Again, quickly for those just tuning in, Dominic Lencioni is a Concrete Industry Management major at Chico State, here in Connecticut on a paid internship with Skate4Concrete and New Line Skateparks. He works Monday through Thursday on the park and on Fridays shadows me.]
This week precaster Coreslab Structures was kind enough to host a tour of their architectural precast concrete panel factory. Plant Manager Luke Thayer took us through the entire operation, explaining the processes involved in creating decorative cast panels. Dominic asked some really great questions and we also toured the yard to see completed panels that were loaded on specialized trailers to transport the panels to their projects.
From there, we fought the crazy rain from Hurricane Debby and did a drive by of the United Concrete Products, Inc. Yalesville factory and headquarters. We were not able to coordinate a visit, but I showed Dominic the yard with all the various precast concrete pieces that United produces for infrastructure, municipalities, and utilities.
We then trekked out to Charlestown, Rhode Island to a unique concrete foundation project (are they ever simple with Talpey Construction Llc?) with Connecticut Concrete Promotion Council member Russ Talpey. Russ explained that this is another unique project which is a collection of various concrete structures including a farmhouse, outdoor pavilion, greenhouse, barn, and farmers apartment alongside a new working farm. A 365 foot long continuous two story concrete wall runs the length of the property and creates a central spine for the residence. Dominic was wondering how heavy the Western Forms, Inc. that Russ uses were, so Russ was kind enough to let Dominic heft them. They still had plenty of forms to set up for the next wall pour, so perhaps Dominic has a job. 😂
We finished the day with a stop in Stonington, Connecticut at an 800 foot long concrete sea wall being placed on Enders Island at St. Edmunds Retreat House. Once the seawall is in place, construction will continue on a two story dormitory and a maintenance building with insulated concrete form (ICF) construction.
Stay tuned- we are placing concrete at the skate park this week!
More adventures to come..
Sincere thanks to:
Rob Del Vento
Luke Thayer
Russ Talpey
Kevin Miller
Crystal Howard
Shout out to:
Kanten Russell
Julia Garbini
Nicole Maher
Concrete Industry Management (CIM)
Chico State CIM
California State University, Chico
Skate4Concrete
New Line Skateparks
Connecticut Ready Mixed Concrete Association
National Ready Mixed Concrete Association
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