Behind the Mic

What does it look like to innovate by expanding your business? Look no further than Modern Foundations located in Woodbine, Maryland. Bruce Neale is founder and owner of Modern where he has built a corporation that provides many levels of product and service based in concrete. A family generation business, his sons, Michael and JasonRead More

Ryan Olson has spent a large part of his professional career investing in the concrete industry and learning from the many resources, personalities and innovators. As editor for Concrete Contractor magazine, he used his platform to bring awareness, growth and evolution to the industry while connecting both supply and demand in new and unique ways.Read More

Accufooting Concrete Footing Brace is a new system bursting onto the market from the innovative mind of Dwight Lamm. A concrete contractor by trade with a lifetime of work behind him, Dwight saw a need in his own work for a quicker way to set up the accuracy of footings and support the reinforcement necessaryRead More

Located in Marietta, GA, Herbert Construction Company has an incredible story to tell. With an established market in Michigan, they began to see the signs of recession through a deteriorating customer base. Doug watched his father, Barry, make the difficult decision to move family and company to a completely new market where they quickly tookRead More

TCB Walls Inc. in Melbourne, Florida is a cast-in-place concrete shell contractor. The company markets a concept as quite literally “The Cure for Block.” In a state which has seen the most dramatic increase in design wind speed and some of the most severe storms, TCB Walls tells their customers that they build poured concreteRead More

We continue our series of contractor interviews and break into our planned track with this important interview. Sean Smith is Vice President for MPW Construction Services, Inc. of Wellington, OH (Greater Cleveland Market). A second generation wall contractor and owner, Sean has seen more in his career than most would ever care to imagine. HavingRead More

Kirby Justesen is president of SCW Footings & Foundations, Inc. of Salt Lake City, Utah. A Board member in two different decades (separated by a decade) and an active member of both CFA’s Legacy Committee and ACI Technical Committees, Kirby has committed a strong portion of his professional career to giving and serving. Jim Baty,Read More

From all appearances, what OSHA is saying is they are not going to cite the operator of an knuckleboom crane “at this time” for not having a crane operator certificate. Does that matter? What are the technical requirements for operating these pieces of equipment on today’s foundation job sites?  What’s important to understand is thatRead More

Increase Profits by Creating Systems in Your Company is presented by Doug Herbert of Herbert Construction Company of Marietta, Georgia and was a featured presentation at Concrete Foundations Convention 2018 in Midway, Utah.  Doug is the company’s President, Vice President for the CFA Board of Directors and a regular presenter featured at CFA’s Convention asRead More

Levi Shrock is the Safety Director for his company and former chair of the CFA Safety Committee. Through his leadership, this committee developed a new safety resource to challenge the present cultures of concrete companies and the safety programs they feel might be working for them.