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Security Sealant Handbook
Pecora has introduced a security application manual for the sealant industry. In the majority of building projects, sealants are used solely to protect the building. However, when the building is a daycare, hospital or prison, it is important that a sealant cannot be pulled from a joint and eaten by a small child, used by psychiatric patients to hurt themselves, or removed to expose a joint for an inmate to hide a weapon or contraband. Often described as "tamper resistant" or "tamper proof," these security sealants have been specifically engineered to offer enhanced hardness properties that distinguish themselves from typical construction sealants. To receive a free copy of the Security Sealant Systems handbook, visit your local Authorized Pecora Distributor or send an e-mail request to John Stubblefield at StubblefieldJ@Pecora.com.

Online calculator estimates fuel, cost savings on concrete roadways
The American Concrete Pavement Association's (ACPA) new Green Streets Calculator allows agencies, planning organizations, roadbuilders and others to calculate the estimated fuel and cost savings associated with building a concrete pavement versus an asphalt pavement.

The Green Streets Calculator can be accessed online at www.pavements4life.com/GreenStreets.

Concrete pitch books from the NRMCA
The National Ready Mixed Concrete Association (NRMCA) now offers seven titles in its series of popular flipbook promotion tools. Current titles include: Self Consolidating Concrete, Tilt-Up Concrete Construction, Environmental Qualities of Ready Mixed Concrete, Insulating Concrete, Flowable Fill, Pervious Concrete and Parking Lot Promotion.

The 20-page presentations include attractive, clear and compelling information for the specifier, backed by key additional information that the specifier does not see. The Pitch Book also comes with a Windows PowerPoint version on CD for electronic presentations which also enables editing and printing of page updates to the flip-chart book.