As a follow up to our recent groundbreaking ceremony, our west coast team in conjunction with our McMinnville, Oregon based friends at Solid Carbon, and concrete supplier Knife River, who has nearby batch mixing facility located less than a mile from our campus, poured the concrete footers and slab for our new 20,000 square foot production facility – The NEWBeamery.
“Concrete is a necessary structural tool for most buildings, especially ones of this size and function, that is used to give a structure its ground connection and bearing on the site. The issue is the large carbon footprint standard concrete creates, not only to produce, but to transport to a jobsite,” Explained Oliver Ogden, our Assistant West Coast General Manager. “Anything we can do to offset that carbon footprint during the construction process is something our team really focuses on. Partnering with Solid Carbon, who use a bio-char filler to produce a carbon sequestering concrete, just makes a lot of sense to us for not only our production facility here in McMinnville, but also on a number of other projects we have worked on or will be working on in the near future.”
