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CP&P recently sponsored a “Ruck” event in Staunton, VA that supported the SPECIALIST TREVOR BANKS FOUNDATION. Ed Plucinski and Ed Eagle attended the event, which was a fantastic time and a good cause supporting our military veterans in many ways from providing food, PTSD assistance, and other mental health programs. This “Ruck” event supported the...

Bryant’s Excavation Inc. is installing their first retain-it modular stormwater system for the new CVS store on Wythe Creek Road in Poquoson, VA. The system consists of 34 each 3’ tall (inside) inverted retain-it modules with slab tops. The detention system stores 5670 CF of water, has an internal weir wall / baffle outlet control...

CP&P recently partnered with Basic Construction (Phase 1) and Allan Myers (Phase 2 & 3) to supply concrete pipe & precast structures for the City of Newport News’ Transportation Center Project. This project will create a regional multimodal transportation hub for enhanced passenger rail service in Newport News and will be a component of a...

Eastern Excavating recently installed a 68 unit stacked retain-it modular stormwater system for the Montgomery Street Residences Project in Savannah, GA. The stacked infiltration system stores 15,885 CF, had notched weir/baffle outlet control, access manholes, and was approved by the City of Savannah. System was set in two days while dodging Tropical Storm Elsa.

CP&P’s “Employee and New Hire Referral Incentive” program provides cash earnings for both the ‘recruiting’ employee as well as the ‘newly hired’ employee! The program requires that both employees meet attendance (max points allowed), safety (zero safety incidents/ injuries) and write- up (zero disciplinary actions) criteria in order to qualify at each of three stages-...

CP&P welcomed members from Thomas and Hutton, Mattern and Craig, and MRB Group for a combined Charleston Pipe and Summerville Precast Tour on July 20. The tour group convened in the Charleston plant break room for introductions and a safety orientation. Mike Johnson, Billy Norris and Ryan Kistler provided an overview of what the guests...

Construction Professionals Inc. recently installed a 14 unit retain-it modular stormwater system for the Moxy by Marriott Project in Charleston, SC. The detention system holds 2,503 CF, had orifice outlet control, access manholes, and was approved by the City of Charleston. Excavators were used to set the retain-it units, (heaviest pick only 11,000 +/- lbs.)

United States Congresswoman Nancy Mace (SC District 1) recently visited with the team at CP&P to meet and participate in a tour of the Summerville, South Carolina operation. After a quick safety orientation, Representative Mace and her aides received a brief history of Concrete Pipe & Precast from CEO, John Blankenship and an overview of...

Construction on VDOT’s I-64 High Rise Bridge project began during the summer of 2018 and is expected to be completed by December 2022. This Design-Build project was awarded to the Granit-Parsons-Corman team with an approximate construction cost of $409.6 million. VDOT determined a design-build contracting approach would expedite delivery of the I-64 High Rise Bridge...

The team at SeamonWhiteside in Mount Pleasant, SC allowed CP&P to hold a “Dine and Learn” after hours educational/networking event in their office parking lot. Two tractor trailers of precast pipe and product including a retain-it stormwater modular detention section, precast manhole sections, a pond outlet structure, round and elliptical pipe, a precast light pole...