When it comes to industrial projects, Mid-States Concrete Industries’ precast products offer a positive impact to the construction process.

Our organization was proud to partner with Corporate Contractors Inc. (CCI) on the construction of a 500,000-square-foot speculative industrial warehouse intended for a future tenant, owned by Phoenix Investors, a Milwaukee-based real estate agency.

For this Beloit project, located in the Gateway Business Park, Mid-States Concrete manufactured and installed more than 200 precast wall panels, and four pieces of hollowcore plank.

”We chose precast because it’s kind of the industry standard when it comes to these speculative [buildings],” said Aaron Combs, Project Manager for CCI. “… We chose Mid-States because of our longstanding partnership with Mid-States on these types of projects.”

While CCI considered both steel and tilt-up for the project, precast concrete offered the flexibility and time savings CCI needed for the timeline of the project. The wall panels were erected in roughly 12 days in July 2022.

”We started this project in March and turned it over to the owner in December,” Combs said. “Precast is able to meet our schedule, which provided savings to the client in the overall cost of the project.”

Combs added using precast helped the project run smoothly the whole way through the process. He said Mid-States knocked the shop drawings and the submittal process out of the park and simplified things. Because of that smooth process, CCI and Mid-States were able to spend time coordinating the jobsite up front, making it easier for the team to accept the panels in the field.

When it came to installation, Combs was impressed with the communication from the project management team at Mid-States, in terms of goals set each day and any impacts to those goals. He also commended the installation team for being on time every day, working hard, keeping a clean jobsite, and communicating well with the CCI team.

”At the end of the day, we’ve got a really good product and a happy client and it’s because of partners like you guys,” Combs said.

Mid-States Concrete Industries President Hagen Harker documented two visits to the jobsite in our Precast Chalk Talk series. Watch the videos to learn more about why precast concrete is a great choice for your next industrial project.

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