Video: Concrete Lane Addition Never Looked So Cool

Construction marketing done right: great overview (6:13 min.), from dowel bars to texture cure, of E.T. Simonds' crew adding a lane to I-57 in Mount Vernon, Ill.

Dec 13, 2013
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