Posted on 09/25/2005 9:55:25 PM PDT by george76
General contractor Paul Wisecup thought everything was on schedule with the aircraft hangar he is building...
The concrete foundation and floor had been poured, the metal building had been erected, and all that remained before the doors could be installed was the pouring of concrete for the ramp connecting the building to the taxiway.
Then he heard he might not get all the concrete he expected on time...
Cement is the powdered ingredient in concrete that causes the sand, gravel and other materials to stick together. Without cement, you don’t get concrete.
Concrete contractors in Grand Junction said they are on “50 percent allotment” during September...
But Gardner said he is optimistic about cement supplies later this fall. Concrete contractors in much of the rest of the United States have been on partial allocations for certain periods during the past year or so, but Colorado has avoided allocation cuts until now...
“Everybody’s going to get their projects done,” he said. “We still have October and November to catch up.”
“If you see this allocation continue, you could see prices go up; that’s my opinion,” DuCray said.
The cutbacks in cement allotments for Colorado concrete contractors is the result of construction demand outstripping the cement industry’s ability to supply product...
“What’s happening in Colorado now is reflective of what’s happening nationwide,”...
Holcim’s plant in Florence produces about 35,000 tons of cement per week, he said.
The Florence plant shut down for five days at the end of August and into the first week of September while bricks in a kiln were replaced, Chizmadia said. But the plant’s closure didn’t affect the supply-and-demand situation, he said.
“It was not viewed in any way as prompting the shortage in Colorado,”
(Excerpt) Read more at gjsentinel.com ...
Hard times for the concrete industry?
They're stoned...
Kinda sluggish...
I've been wondering how this shortage is going to affect the construction costs nationwide. We planned to build a garage last year (in Montana) and found out that the price of concrete had doubled from the year before. Our friend the cement guy said they were on allotment (50%) because the rest is being sent to Iraq. Now the Gulf needs to be rebuilt and the price is going to be far higher than people expect.
He might be wrong. A company building a dam in my area had to stop building too. He said it was because of the shortage and that was due to the Red Chinese building and taking all the cement. Now, with all the building that's got to be done in the south, it could get very serious.
Who is John Galt?
Your post is met with a stony silence. There is no foundation for this kind of talk.
And that is the rock-bottom truth. Some truths are hard to handle.
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