Concrete contractors in the U.S. 2018

Baker Concrete Construction ranked as the number one concrete contractor based in the United States for many consecutive years, generating 1.18 billion U.S. dollars in revenue in 2018. Lithko Contracting and BrandSafway were second and third respectively in the construction contractor rankings.Baker’s recipe for successBaker Concrete Construction generated the 16th highest revenue out of some 600 specialty contractors, an impressive ranking for a firm that began when three brothers of the Baker family quit their jobs to start their own business in 1968. Contractors rely on concrete to build homes, highways, and hospitals in the United States, and concrete is also the primary material for the completion of tall buildings worldwide . Some of the notable projects that Baker has worked on include the expansion of the Arlington National Cemetery and building the interwoven concrete structure for the National Veterans Memorial and Museum in Columbus.Concrete: finding the right mixConcrete is made by combining cement with water and aggregate; this malleable mixture can then be shaped before it solidifies. The most common type of cement is Portland cement, named after its similarity to Portland stone, which was quarried on the Isle of Portland in England. The cement industry in the United States has shown signs of recovery since the global financial crisis that hit in 2008: domestic production of portland and masonry cement grew to an estimated 87 million metric tons in 2018.

贝克混凝土建筑公司连续多年被评为美国首屈一指的混凝土承包商，2018年创造了11.8亿美元的营业收入。利希科承包公司和布兰德萨夫韦分别位列建筑承包商排名的第二和第三位。贝克公司之所以取得成功，在于其从1968年三位贝克家族兄弟辞去工作，自创企业以来，始终位居约600家专业承包商中第16高的收入水平，这一成就对于一家初创企业而言堪称令人瞩目的成就。承包商们依赖混凝土建造美国的住宅、高速公路和医院，而混凝土亦是全球高层建筑的主要建筑材料。贝克公司曾参与的一些知名项目包括阿灵顿国家公墓的扩建以及在美国哥伦布市为国家级退伍军人纪念馆和博物馆建造的错综复杂的混凝土结构。混凝土：寻找合适的配比混凝土通过将水泥、水和骨料混合而成，这种可塑的混合物在固化前可以被塑形。最常见的水泥类型是波特兰水泥，其名称源于其与英格兰波特兰岛上采掘的波特兰石相似。自2008年全球金融危机爆发以来，美国水泥行业已显示出复苏迹象：波特兰和砖石水泥的国内产量增长至2018年估计的8700万吨。