Category: News

In December 2003, The Virginia Department of Transportation signed a public-private partnership agreement with Branch Civil Inc. to develop and widen Route 58 from Hillsville to Stuart as funding became available. The 36-mile corridor begins southwest of Hillsville and continues east through Carroll, Floyd, and Patrick counties to approximately one mile west of Stuart. This...

CP&P would like to welcome aboard and introduce Mr. Keith Cronin, the new plant manager at our Rincon, GA. plant. Keith comes to us from Rinker Materials and has a long standing work history in the concrete pipe world. Twenty three years ago he started in Wilson, NC as a maintenance mechanic for Hydro Conduit...

We would like to welcome Jacob Byrum to the CP&P Safety Team. Jacob serves as Area Safety Manager for the Mid-Atlantic Eastern Crescent plants, where he will help managers and employees drive their safety culture to a whole new level. Jacob comes to CP&P with over 8 years experience in the safety and construction field....

P3 (Professional Product Proficiency) is an ACPA training program for beginners to veterans. P3 teaches students the fundamentals of concrete pipe while gaining a better understanding of the manufacturing, installation, inspection process and an introduction to design. It is led by the ACPA’s Region Engineer Team, who are experts in both industry and technical knowledge....

In January 2022, CP&P was asked to look at a combination storm water retention and sand filter system for a project called “2728 Capital Blvd” located just outside of downtown Raleigh, NC. The project consisted of a renovation to an existing warehouse with additional parking and storm drainage required. The project documents did not specifically...

Construction is underway at the Public Services Department Operations Center for the Town of Mount Pleasant, SC, which includes modern facilities to accommodate a larger fleet maintenance building, yard debris transfer facility and office space for town employees. The first of six underground detention systems was recently installed by Celek & Celek Construction Inc. (132...

In the 3rd quarter of 2022, CP&P added a new Audit process to our safety program, and thus the Platinum Safety Team was born. Our goal was, once a quarter, to visit a plant and identify some best practices and safety improvements. And I am happy to say we have met that goal. The final...

CP&P’s Salem Facility recently supplied 290 Linear Feet of triple 8’ x 8’ precast box culvert to Philips Construction for installation on the VDOT D06 (0081-M02-001) project in Washington County, VA. This run of box culvert was unique in that it combined the use of a single cell 8×8 precast box culvert with a double...

On Friday September 16th the Jessup plant closed up shop early and made good on a promise to celebrate the milestone achievement of two years without a recordable injury. The Jessup team celebrated at a nearby dine and play entertainment venue called “Main Event”. Accompanied by Senior Management and our sales team, we gathered for...

The Platinum Safety Team has completed its first official plant review and that plant was at Dunn Precast. Everyone at Dunn was proactive, very open to questions and responsive to safety suggestion or corrections. We could not have asked for a better place to start! It was a very good two days with a lot...