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The National Precast Concrete Association (NPCA) held The Precast Show Awards Luncheon in New Orleans on May 20, 2021. The highlight of the day was the introduction of the Master Precaster Class of 2021, punctuated by our own Anthony Jackson from Dunn, NC! Anthony was one of 23 honorees who completed the curriculum from Precast...

The MD 32 Widening Project in Howard County, MD consists of 242 Linear Feet of Double Monolithic 10’ x 9’ Precast Box Culvert. The Martinsburg Precast Plant produced these in 60 sections, with the heaviest section weighing over 27 tons. The project also included 206 Linear Feet of 6’x7’ Precast Box Culvert & 198 Linear...

Virginia Department of Transportation (VDOT) project for Route 10 in Chesterfield County required 136 LF of Single Precast 8’x5’ Box Culvert in a Quad Line (Four Cells.) Because there would be less that 2’ of fill over the box culvert, VDOT required the use of Corrosion Resistant Reinforcing (CRR) steel. The layout also required 30...

Just before the break for the holidays, on December 21st CP&P was contacted by grading and utility contractor J. L. Raper Corporation out of Statesville, NC.  They were just awarded an emergency sinkhole repair project located at the Charlotte Mecklenburg Schools Bus Terminal Parking Lot on Wilkinson Boulevard just outside of downtown Charlotte, NC.  The...

Tropical storms are often blamed for collapsed roadways, however many times a large rain event like a tropical storm is merely the “final straw” in a series of issues leading up to a critical culvert failure. The flexible pipe culvert that recently failed in the Lake Smith/Haygood area of Virginia Beach was one such example,...

Early Wednesday morning, August 12, 2020 twin corrugated metal pipes (CMP) failed during a rain event in Manassas Park, VA, cutting off access to about 400 residents from their homes. CP&P received the request to provide 84” Diameter Class III Reinforced Concrete Pipe (RCP) for pipe replacement that Friday, and began delivering concrete pipe to...

On November 11, 2020, CP&P’s South Carolina team, in partnership with the Carolinas Concrete Pipe and Products Association (CCPPA) invited South Carolina Senator Sean Bennett to tour CP&P’s Charleston and Summerville facilities. Showcasing what the concrete pipe and precast industry means to the state, Senator Bennett was impressed by the many people CP&P employs locally...

If you have seen quite a bit of CP&P product heading out the door to Fam Construction, LLC, get used to it for the next 3 to 4 years! Fam Construction was awarded the Transform I-66 Outside the Beltway project in Northern Virginia, which will transform Northern Virginia’s Interstate 66 into a multimodal corridor that...

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MCDOT installs reinforced concrete pipe (RCP) manufactured by CP&P’s Jessup, Maryland Pipe Plant to save the day after a flash flood destroys a road in Potomac, Maryland.