Industry Leaders in Soil Erosion and Sediment Control

Midwest Construction products is a 25 year young family company.  We strive to keep owners, and hired contractors of the owners, educated and armed with all the tools to stay within local and federal regulations.  Our field representatives are trained in not only the present practices of staying compliant, but also learning about the newest technologies and solutions that will be available to the construction industry.  Spending hundreds of thousands on concrete and hauled in materials are the way of the past.  Self sustainability, creating oxygen, reducing refuse, and create any energy that you and your neighbor may need is the way of the future.  Our company has made a vow to change not only it's own thinking, but change the way everyone else thinks as well.  Are staff is qualified to provide the education and information needed to keep the hillsides green and the water clean.  Previous methods of construction have disregarded the general health of the planet.  We at Midwest Construction Products believe that when you design and plan your job site around what you are given, you will be given back much more.  Design with the planet in mind and you will be amazed at what it gives you in return.

We have many solutions for earth stabilization including geotextile fabrics and geogrids.  Stabilizing the earth under any future construction can eliminate future failures which leads to unnecessary waste.  Do it right the first time and save your money or your tax payers money later.  It is amazing what a little filter fabric or stabilization fabric, whether woven fabric or non woven fabric, can save you as an owner or save your owner at the end of the day. 

Another concept is Erosion Control.  Many in our industry believe Erosion and Sediment control are the same thing.  Wrong!!  Did you know if you have a 100% solid erosion control plan you can eliminate 99% of sediment loss?  Thus making the issue of sediment control minimal.  Control erosion you control sediment.  If you think erosion and sediment control are the same, think of it this way; Erosion is the loss of sedimentary material(sediment). Sediment loss can be created by erosion.  Two different problems handled in the right way can eliminate hefty fines.  Just ask (insert any big contractors name)!

Our staff will come to your site and help you decide what you need, not what may have been used around the corner.  We will supply you with several options keeping you within your budget, educated in what you are installing, and most importantly, in compliance!!  Early 2010 meant changes in the Federal clean air and water act.  These changes have given the ability for state and federal agencies to make sure the projects done withing their governing boundaries maintain within compliance, even if it means fines.  Don't give a bankrupt state any reason to fine you especially if you do not know the regulations.  If you have any questions, or if you currently are having problems staying compliant give us a call.  We have 6 location with more locations planned.  Our goal is to be the ones who solve the problems commonly found on construction sites today.  These problems that others have disregarded have made our planet, have made our Earth, unhealthy.  This is uncalled for and can be prevented.  Join us at http://www.midwestconstruct.com/ 

Our educational arm Ipafes is coming to a city near you!  We are on a mission to provide Innovative solutions and products to solve common environmental issues.  We are traveling city to city to teach about technologies available to stay within compliance.  Many of these classes provide those PDHs or Professional Development Hours that you as engineers and architects need to stay current.  Do you have engineers on staff that need credit hours to stay current.  RSVP to one of our seminars and have your staff become educated on current rules and regulations revolving around the environment.  Current schedule here: http://www.ipafes.com/calendar/calendar.htm

From soil science to seed mixing, from textile manufacturing to water quality, our staff is constantly challenged to be the top of their field!  Join our fan pages on Facebook and make our sites one of your daily or weekly visits!  http://www.midwestconstruct.com/ http://www.ipafes.com/  http://www.gabionbaskets.net/  http://www.allmyshipping.com/

Reclaiming our past.

In the passing of our daily lives, many of us will encounter the remains of some building or factory. As we drive by, we look over the edge of the highways and byways we travel, into the heart of developing ares. Amid the skeletal corpses of steel and timbers, caked in the dust of construction traffic, lie piles of brick and concrete. These once bright and grand facades have been reduced to gravel to be swept aside, making room for the future. We all see these remnants of yesterday and don’t give them much thought. We know, and most times just accept, that those piles will soon be in the back of a dump truck, on the way to some landfill, or off to fill a hole that will one day have another structure built on it.

Have you ever asked yourself, what if those builders were to reuse that material to build new structures? Have you ever wondered what would it be like to tear down bridges, and then use the rubble to shore and buttress the new? I have asked myself these questions and more. I worry at the amount of good reusable job site materials we throw away on a daily basis. Can we use these leftovers? Is there a way we could be more environmentally conscious about what we send to those landfills? The great news is we can and we do. In an age when the majority of us are concerned with how we are treating the environment, there exists a building material that has the potential to change the way we see new construction; gabions.

Gabions have been seen in construction projects around the world for a very long time. Whether they be made of woven or welded wire, gabions have traditionally be filled using quarried stone. These stones are typically trucked into project sites while the waste is trucked out. Creating such a large impact on the environment is usually thought of as a unfortunate side affect of the construction process. Not any more. With city and state budgets getting smaller, many projects are using less new material in order to save money, creating a very fortunate side affect. Also with a push to include more "Green" aspects in the designing of new projects, the project owners and designers are taking new steps to reduce waste.

More and more engineers, architects, and builders are using gabions to reclaim what was normally waste material and put it back into their projects. These forward thinking individuals are reusing the broken bricks and crushed concrete as fill material for gabions, creating walls and structures that meet or exceed the performance of newly manufactured products. By recycling these components, project owners and even taxpayers are being saved thousands of dollars a year.

Join us at Midwest Construction Products as we take a step into the future of new construction. We are bringing new ideas and strong methods for helping the contractor, the project owner, and the environment to the forefront of the industry. We will be ready to show you how to take products like gabion baskets and make them work in your designs and how they can help give back what so many are taking away. Stop by our website, www.gabionbaskets.net, and see what the future looks like.

I'll see you there.