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Welcome to CONCRETE CURRENTS, the electronic newsletter from
Concrete Products magazine.
For additional industry news, technology, and highlights from the latest
issue of Concrete Products, please visit www.concreteproducts.com
Submissions for upcoming issues of CONCRETE CURRENTS or Concrete
Products can be directed to Editor Don Marsh, don.marsh@penton.com or
312/840-8483.
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Hoover
Dam, 3.25-million-yd. marvel, turns 75
Sources: U.S. Department of Interior; American Society of
Civil Engineers, Reston, Va.; Portland Cement Association, Skokie,
Ill.
On September 30, 1935, President Franklin Roosevelt dedicated what
would become a universal concrete icon. The 726-ft.-high, gravity-arch
Hoover Dam – rising from the Black Canyon at the southeast
Nevada/northwest Arizona border to form Lake Mead – consumed 3.25
million yd. of concrete. Click
here for full story.
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Hover
named ACI president
Source: American Concrete Institute, Farmington Hills,
Mich.
Cornell University Professor of Civil and Environment Engineering
Kenneth Hover, PhD, P.E., has taken the helm at American Concrete
Institute, following the September 18 passing of Richard Stehly, who had
been named president in March. Click
here for full story.
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