Lithocrete Book - Volume 1

Dedicated to Excellence Shaw & Sons Concrete Construction is the research and development arm of Lithocrete®. At Shaw & Sons and Lithocrete®, our position of industry leadership is maintained by our dedication to the following principles: • Quality - Deliver each project within budget and ahead of schedule while maintaining the highest level of quality and product integrity. • Innovation - Continue education, research and development resulting in patented innovations that meet our clients’ requirements and challenges, and contribute to the structural and esthetic improvement of our industry on a national and worldwide scale. • People - Recognize talent and develop leaders from within our company. Reward those people who are committed to ethics, craftsmanship, teamwork, discovery, and customer satisfaction. • Clients - Build lifelong relationships with owners, designers, public agencies and general contractors who share our values, offer us new challenges, and recognize our commitment to the continued improvement of our company and our products. Conclusion Through the past five decades and millions of square feet of successful installation of both horizontal and vertical concrete, Shaw & Sons has created more than 35 patents and trademarks to date relating to structural and architectural concrete. We classify concrete into four categories: “Structural” and “Architectural,” and “Vertical” and “Horizontal.” The difficulty begins when architectural concrete requires structural properties and vertical concrete requires the look or esthetics of horizontal architectural concrete. As previously discussed, Lithocrete® Architectural Concrete is very similar to “trap rock” warehouse slab construction, except the seeded granite materials are revealed for architectural appeal. By any measure, Lithocrete’s® granite series is the best structural-architectural hardscape material available. With our continued quest to improve industry standards, we now have 15 unique Lithocrete® Systems, seven of which have already been released to our selected licensees, and eight new Lithocrete® Systems that we are finalizing or perfecting. Copyright © 2008 Lithocrete, Inc. All rights reserved. No part of this book may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system, or be transmitted in any form or by any means without written permission from the publisher. Lithocrete® is a registered trademark of Lithocrete, Inc. Published by Lithocrete, Inc. 829 W. 17th Street, Costa Mesa, CA 92627 Authors, Ron Shaw & Jeff Counterman Editor, Dan Carlsson Graphic Design, Jeff Counterman Primary Photography, Ron Shaw Printed in the USA Our new systems completely change the boundaries of what is possible with structural-architectural concrete and greatly enhance both product types. For instance, Systems 9 and 10 have been used on the conical shaped, cast-in-place wall Shaw & Sons constructed at 2000 Avenue of the Stars in Century City, CA. Using System 9 enabled us to pump the entire wall in one continuous pour, yet the wall has complete isolation joints for expansion and contraction. System 10, our Presto Wall Finish System, completely eliminates pour lines, entrapped air holes, and variable texture on vertical surfaces. It retains the smooth, uniform finish and appearance of concrete that had only previously been achievable when constructed on flat or horizontal surfaces ® (See pg. 56). Based on our licensees success with innovative uses of Lithocrete , we are completely committed to developing new products and new uses for existing products. Unlike typical product manufacturers that rely on untrained third parties to install their products and have no experienced, in-house crews who actually do the installation, Lithocrete’s® systems are being continuously installed by Shaw & Sons and T.B. Penick, allowing us to fully support all of our licensees . . . we consider them as our working partners. Workshops, company visits, “go to meetings” and constant communication between our partners continue to rapidly grow as we pursue our mission with our licensees of setting new product standards, quality levels, and customer satisfaction on every Lithocrete® project. Ron D. Shaw President/Lithocrete

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