Marshall Sorenson of Shockey Precast – a Metromont company – explains why the best laid plans are precast. Forget what they say about best laid plans, the best laid plans are exactly that: the best, particularly when it comes to erecting a data center. From a germ of an idea, you need to be able Read more
Metromont’s Georgia Plant Projects Win Big at 2022 Georgia ACI Awards
Three of Metromont’s projects are award winners in the 2022 Georgia ACI Awards! The Emory University Hospital Midtown Parking Deck received First Place in the Parking Deck category, Kimball Ridge Office Building won Outstanding Achievement in the Mid-Rise category, and VA Cobb County received the Award of Excellence in the Low-Rise category. Congratulations to our Read more
The Pavilion Parking Deck Wins Award
The Pavilion Parking Structure project in Philadelphia won an Honorable Mention Award in the Precast/Prestressed Concrete Institute’s (PCI) 2021 Design Awards Competition. Completed in 2018, the 5-level precast garage was constructed by Shockey Precast 67 feet underground and supports half of the 1.5 million square feet steel patient center constructed directly above it. Congratulations to Read more
Suzanne Aultman Named Engineer of the Year
Metromont Corporation is proud to announce that our Technical Manager Suzanne Aultman has been named Engineer of the year for the Piedmont Chapter of the South Carolina Society of Professional Engineers for the year 2021. Suzanne serves as a mentor to Metromont’s young engineers and in October 2020 received the first ever Irwin J. Speyer Read more
Suzanne Aultman, P.E., FPCI to Receive Industry Award
Metromont is proud to announce that Suzanne Aultman, P.E., FPCI is the recipient of the first-ever Irwin J. Speyer Young Professional Award for PCI. Suzanne will receive the award in September and was selected because of the extensive work she does for PCI and ACI as part of her role with Metromont. In addition to Read more
PCI Foundation 2020 Project Precast Design Competition
Metromont was one of five industry partners that sponsored student teams in PCI Foundation’s 2020 Project Precast Design Competition, held in Fort Worth, TX during the PCI Convention. This year’s Project Precast design challenge was to design a Texas high school stadium for the modern era. The 16 students who participated in the competition made Read more
Metromont Corporation to acquire Shockey Precast Group
GREENVILLE, S.C. – Metromont Corporation, a manufacturer of precast concrete materials, announces its plan to acquire Shockey Precast Group of Winchester, Va. Metromont, a leader and pioneer in the engineering and manufacturing of precast concrete for commercial construction, will purchase Shockey Precast Group from its current owner, Don Shockey. The Shockey Precast Group will continue Read more
Metromont Corp. Moves Charlotte Operations to Upstate South Carolina
Metromont Corporation announces that it plans to move its Charlotte operations to its upstate South Carolina facility. This announcement follows Metromont’s recent $8.8 million investment into the expansion of its Greenville County operations. In 2015, the company purchased the 95-acre property of the former Metromont Materials in Spartanburg, S.C. which currently produces much of their Read more
3 Architectural Structures Made from Concrete
While concrete is often prized for its practical attributes rather than its aesthetic ones, precast concrete has produced some of the world’s most memorable and visually-striking architectural structures. Moreover, concrete has proven to be a remarkably versatile building material, utilized for everything from single family homes to entire planned cities. For a better understanding of Read more
Concrete is Sustainable? Who Knew? We did.
Sustainability is meeting the needs of the present generation without compromising the needs of future generations. In other words, sustainability is our capacity to endure. As an industry. As a society. And as a people. We do this by making the most of our resources and by recycling and reusing materials whenever possible in a Read more