I ’m standing on a windswept bluff well above a modern precast concrete factory outside of Boulder, Colo., where soaring hawks and sometimes eagles hunt for abundant rabbits, bull snakes, and the occasional inattentive prairie dog.
I overlook neat rows of precisely made solar heating reservoirs, holding tanks, domestic and fire protection cisterns, septic tanks, advanced treatment units, leaching pits, wet wells, pumping stations, distribution boxes, oil-water-sand interceptors, extended aeration tanks, catch basins, drop inlets, manholes and other similar structures – a veritable candy store of precast concrete.
This laundry list of useful infrastructure vessel products, many used in the onsite wastewater
In Praise of Precast Concrete
What we often mistakenly call ‘cement’ is a wondrous material that plays a huge role in a wide variety of public and private infrastructure
Dec 06, 2011
| by Doug Jatcko |
