Build With Strength, Arizona State Affiliate Host Tour for Regional Influencers

NRMCA and the Arizona Rock Products Association (ARPA) recently joined forces to host a Build With Strength roundtable and bus tour (seen here) for the greater Phoenix region in order to engage owners, designers, contractors and policy makers on the topic of building resiliency, efficiency and sustainability with concrete.

To accomplish this, the Build With Strength committee kicked off the event with a tour of Desert Aggregates quarry and ready mixed concrete operations to give attendees an inside look at the inner workings of concrete production. The tour then visited a 250-unit luxury home development made with HercuWall, a novel type of insulated concrete form (ICF) system that negates the need for wood within the structure walls. Following this, the tour visited Compass Datacenter’s Moonraker project which aimed to implement significant strategies geared toward incorporating sustainability in building with concrete. Overall, attendees were able to witness the various ways in which projects can build with strength through the use of ready mixed concrete.

For more information, contact Brandon Wray at bwray@nrmca.org.