Entries for 2021

2021 DCC Award Winners

Posted on September 24, 2021 in: Press Release, Decorative

September 24 -- The Decorative Concrete Council (DCC), a specialty council of the American Society of Concrete Contractors (ASCC), St. Louis, Mo., has announced the winners of its 13th annual Decorative Concrete Awards competition

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Safety Awards

Posted on September 24, 2021 in: Press Release, Safety

ST. LOUIS, MO September 24 – Concrete contractors with exemplary safety records for 2020 were recognized by the Safety & Risk Management Council (SRMC) of the American Society of Concrete Contractors (ASCC), St. Louis, Mo., at the association’s Annual Conference in St. Louis on September 23. W. Burr Bennett Awards for Safety Excellence were given to specialty contractor Hemma Co...

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Gaining Strength Award

Posted on September 24, 2021 in: Press Release

September 24 –The Emerging Leaders Committee of the American Society of Concrete Contractors (ASCC), St. Louis, Mo., presented its fourth Gaining Strength Award

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Concrete Pump Truck Set Up - Common Do's and Don'ts Joe Whiteman, director of safety services As concrete contractors, having a concrete pump truck on your jobsite may be as common as a house having a front door. As regular as that piece of equipment may be on the project, using it can easily become routine, and routine can lead to complacency. When complacency sets in ques...

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What Brings You to the ASCC Hotline?

Posted on September 01, 2021 in: Technical

Jim Klinger, The Voice Newsletter September 2021 The ASCC Hotline has been in existence for about 50 years, taking calls on business, contracts/specifications and technical issues. The success of the Hotline is not about the person answering the calls, but the contractors that call in. As contractors call, more information is obtained about an issue or project, which collectively leads to a pin...

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Praise in Public, Coach in Private - It Works for Safety Too Joe Whiteman, director of safety services You have more than likely heard the phrase, “praise in public, coach in private." These are good words to live by when managing employees. However, determining a public or private approach to coaching is dependent upon when coaching is required, the employee, and the potentia...

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ASCCSAFE - Summer 2021

Posted on August 01, 2021 in: Safety

Concrete By Any Other Name

Posted on August 01, 2021 in: Technical

Jim Klinger, Concrete Construction Specialist, The Voice Newsletter July/August 2021 Call it coincidence. I had a chance to commiserate with an old construction colleague over this past holiday weekend. Both of us had set foot on our first concrete construction jobsite during the second week of July, 1979 at the same small, mid-rise apartment project  just outside Bethesda...

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ST. LOUIS, MO June 10 – Volunteers from the Decorative Concrete Council (DCC) and the Manufacturers’ Advisory Council (MAC) of the American Society of Concrete Contractors (ASCC) traveled to Detroit, MI March 11-12 to complete a community project for the Durfee Innovation Society. Paul Albanelli, Albanelli Cement Contractors, Livonia, MI was the project manager for the installation ...

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Employee Independent Action - What Is It? Joe Whiteman, director of safety services A great question was raised during last month’s Safety Roundtable on Root Cause Analysis. “What do you do after you have performed a root cause analysis and identified the cause was an employee knowing better, but simply choosing to cut a corner or do the wrong thing”? The follow up question w...

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