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On May 16th and 17th the Platinum Safety Team conducted the 2nd Safety Audit of the year, and this time they were at Martinsburg Precast plant in West Virginia. We started the day off attending a well led safety meeting with the Martinsburg team that included an introduction of our new Continuous Improvement leader, Mark...

As part of the multi-million dollar renovation to the Albert Simons Center for the Arts, located on St. Philip Street in the heart of the College of Charleston campus, CP&P’s Summerville Precast plant provided a Box Culvert style “Storm-Pass” system to Gulf Stream Construction for the project’s underground storm water management. Because of the very...

Ed Eagle, Director of HSE & HR at Concrete Pipe & Precast was presented Robert Woodward Memorial Career Safety Award on April 19 in Chantilly, Virginia at the Heavy Construction Contractors Association (HCCA) Safety Night. This award is presented annually to recognize the career success of an exemplary safety professional each year. The award recognizes...

In a combined effort to protect the underwater ecosystem, encourage fishing and grow tourism, the South Carolina Department of Natural Resources, Santee Cooper Country and concrete companies have partnered to create artificial reefs for lakes Marion and Moultrie in SC. On Tuesday, April 11, the last 110 concrete pipe sections (provided by CP&P) were dropped...

The Martinsburg Precast plant recently provided 54 Liner Feet of 10’ x 6’ precast box culvert for Carr Construction LLC to upsize an existing culvert at Fort AP Hill in Caroline County, VA. The run included precast parapets, grade beams and special precast wing walls. Each precast box culvert section weighed over 21,000 pounds.

Tidal Construction, Inc. recently installed 356 Linear Feet of 6’ x 3’ precast box culvert for the City of Virginia Beach Department of Public Utilities. The precast box culvert sections were designed for 0-2’ fill and included Corrosion Resistant Reinforcing (CRR) steel as per VDOT specifications. Each of the 59 sections weighed just under 6...

Rick Sarvay was hired at Concrete Pipe & Products (CP&P) October 10, 1977 to work at the Southside plant on Terminal Ave. Rick was good at math, knew what a T-Square was and had a basic knowledge of drafting when he started. He perfected his skills coached by his mentor, Charlie Miller, and practical on-...

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...