Concrete Products covers the issues that attract producers of ready mixed and manufactured concrete focusing on equipment and material technology, market development and management topics.
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FEATURE CIB CERTIFICATION Ferrara Bros. Building Materials Corp., the second producer to achieve CIB certification, is an established supplier to many major New York City projects, including more than 100,000 yds. to Towers 2 & 4 on the World Trade Center site, and 50,000-plus yds. for the 9/11 Memorial Museum. Shown here at its College Point plant are some of the newest Kenworth T800SH-mounted mixers Ferrara Bros. added to its fleet in 2011—including the first CNG-powered models McNeilus Cos. delivered to the East Coast. Although CIB Certification is not required in the current NYC Building Code, the Depart- ment of Buildings endorses the program and offers certified producers special status as Approved Concrete Fabricators, which allows them to apply for a Testing Laboratory li- cense. As a NYC DOB Approved Concrete Fab- ricator and Licensed Testing Laboratory, a CIB-certified concrete producer can: • Develop and submit its own concrete mix designs (on a special TR-3P form), with- out the use of an outside licensed con- crete testing laboratory. • Can develop a library of mixes with ac- companying data for hundreds of mixes with different properties and material combinations. • Use their mix design library and new De- partment of Buildings forms to submit additional mixes at any time for unan- ticipated applications and needed changes in the mixes. Mixes can be sub- mitted for approval within days. • Meet the needs of contractors by jointly 26 | MAY 2012 developing new mixes with characteris- tics best suited to the application needed by a particular contractor on a specific project. • Easily adapt to changes in sources of ma- terials. If change is contemplated, new mixes can be run at any time with po- tential new sources. • Readily compare the data results of mixes with different sources, which enables the producer to better realize the optimum choice of materials for quality, cost effi- ciency or LEED credits. Beyond Jenna Concrete and Ferrara Bros., other ready mixed producers serving the five New York City boroughs are in various stages of the certification process, notes CIB Executive Director Bill Lyons. "Those in- volved in the program recognize the sub- stantial upfront expense certification represents," he adds. "The return on invest- ment comes as producers identify new paths to production and delivery efficiency, and realize greater flexibility in mix designs using a wider variety of raw materials avail- able in a coastal market like New York. "Compared to other construction project principals, ready mixed producers are more aware of new materials, admixtures and technologies in concrete production, as well as cost factors in various mix designs. By generating their own mixes, there is a built in and continuing incentive for them to create more efficient and sustainable mixes on all projects," he adds. "If P2P concrete specifications are to gain greater acceptance in the construction in- dustry, concrete producers must demonstrate they are qualified to take on this responsi- bility," says CIB President Cas Bognacki. "The CIB concrete producers certification gives the engineer and owner the assurance that the concrete producer has the staff and tools to comply with a P2P specification." See the CIB website, www.cibofnyc.org, for the Quality Control/Quality Assurance Plan—Minimum Standards and the 28 point QC/QA Producers Checklist. WWW.CONCRETEPRODUCTS.COM