Lincoln Ready Mixed, Overland Ready Mixed, Beatrice Concrete and Husker Concrete teamed up on a paving project in south Lincoln. The Saltillo Industrial Park project located in South Lincoln consists of pouring 2,000 yards of concrete. The project consisted of four new streets for Commercial Buildings. The contractor for this project was TCW Construction.
Lincoln Electric System is nearing completion of Phase 1 on their new Operations Center located on 117 acres in Southeast Lincoln. Beatrice Concrete has supplied over 20,000 cubic yards of concrete for the first phase of the project which included the new operations building, fleet building and new DEC thermal building that will handle all of the heating, cooling and water for the campus. Nearly 5,000 yards of concrete has been used for footings, 10,000 yards for paving, and 7,000 yards was used for interior finished floors.
The new LES Operations Center also created other projects near the area including sub stations and power poles, which called for 2,000 yards of concrete. Lincoln Ready Mixed also supplied 3,000 yards of concrete paving for Rokeby road adjacent to the site.
Beatrice Concrete recently hosted a brisket and brat barbeque at the LES facility for 100 employees and construction workers involved with the project. Phase 2 of the project begins in October and will include LES office buildings. The project began in June of 2017 and Hausmann Construction is the General Contractor for the project. The LES project is the largest single project ever supplied by Beatrice Concrete.
The Nebraska Wesleyan University gets its first new academic building constructed in University Place in more than three decades. The building will be called the Duane W. Acklie Hall of Science, named after the former Crete Carrier CEO and Lincoln philanthropist who was a longtime Nebraska Wesleyan Supporter. Ready Mixed Concrete supplied 2,870 yards of concrete floors, parking lots and footings. S&K Concrete did the floors and parking lots, and Sampson did the footings. This project started in July 2017 and is estimated to open for students in 2019.
The Lincoln Children’s Zoo is in the middle of the largest expansion in its history. The $16 million, 10-acre expansion will create more interaction, more contact and more family memories than ever before. In 2019, the Zoo will open with four new amazing areas – a world-class giraffe feeding experience, an up-close tiger encounter, an indoor adventure where children will climb with monkeys and a plaza with a splash stream. The project includes product supplied from U-MIX Products Company, Apollo Steel, Reimers Kaufman, and Ready Mixed Concrete Company. Ready Mixed Concrete has supplied 4,600 cubic yards of concrete to the job while Reimers Kaufman has supplied 35,000 masonry units, along with PROMIX mortar from U-MIX. Apollo Steel has supplied 106 ton of steel for the project.
Overland Ready Mixed completed a 2,300 yard pour on June 5 in Aurora, NE. The main pour was set to be completed in one day with the only remaining parts of the project being sidewalks and driveways. The large pour was supplied from both the Aurora and Central City plants to accommodate the one day pour. The contractor for the project was Diamond Engineering.
