Blair Concrete Services

State Employees’ Credit Union – Salisbury Street Office & Parking Garage

jhooks — Fri, 01 Jul 2011 15:20:34 +0000

This project located in downtown Raleigh consists of a 127,000 SF cast-in-place parking deck, two concrete cores, over 116,000 square feet of slab on metal deck, pan filled stairs, cast-in-place stairs, and topping slabs. Blair kicked off construction of the concrete structure in January in a very confined work area. The General Contractor is Clancy & Theys, and the scheduled completion for the concrete portion at the SECU Office is this Fall.

Blair wins “Safe Contractor of the Month”

jhooks — Thu, 30 Jun 2011 13:12:20 +0000

Blair Concrete Services was selected as “Safe Contractor of the Month” by two separate clients for the month of April 2011. The first award was given by the Fluor project team at the Talecris job site in Clayton, where Blair is completing the slabs for the NFF project. The second award was in recognition of Blair’s participation in the “Merck Durham Program of Projects” Safety Initiatives at the VBF Expansion site. Blair’s client on that job is Jacobs.

NCSU James B. Hunt Jr. Library

jhooks — Wed, 25 May 2011 17:06:51 +0000

Blair began concrete construction on the Hunt Library in May 2010 at the North Carolina State University Centennial Campus. This facility will be a state-of-the-art library with 250,000 square feet of study rooms, commons areas, faculty areas, teaching & visualization lab, creativity zone, and snack/gaming venues. It will also house the Institute for Emerging Issues. The four level Hunt Library was designed by Swedish firm Snohetta and features an automated book retrieval system (ARS) which can hold nine times more books than conventional shelving. Blair’s turnkey scope is the cast-in-place concrete for the ARS (mud mat/slabs/foundations/walls), core foundations/walls, shear walls, stair/elevator towers, and slabs on deck.

The General Contractor is Skanska USA Building Inc., and completion is scheduled for this fall.

Blair’s Raleigh Office Has New Location

jhooks — Tue, 07 Dec 2010 21:48:35 +0000

The Raleigh offices of Blair Concrete Services have moved into a larger space, just across the parking lot from the old office.

Our new address is:

1410-B Diggs Drive, Raleigh, NC 27603.

The phone and fax numbers remain the same.

Foreman

hrmanager — Sat, 03 Jul 2010 02:06:07 +0000

Brier Creek Medical Office Building

hrmanager — Fri, 14 May 2010 18:24:54 +0000

A two-story building home to various Duke healthcare practices, Blair’s scope for this project included foundations, excavation for and pouring of casting beds, forming and bracing panels, tilt-up walls, pouring slab on grade, and slab on metal deck. This job recently received the 2009 Eagle Award from the ABC of the Carolinas in the Excellence in Construction competition.

EFACEC Manufacturing Facility

hrmanager — Fri, 14 May 2010 18:24:24 +0000

Adding to its considerable portfolio of projects for the industrial market, Blair Concrete Services recently completed work on this 242,000 SF complex, located outside of Savannah in Rincon, Georgia. Blair was responsible for the project’s turnkey concrete contract with an on-site batch plant.

Harbor Side Club @ 70 West

hrmanager — Fri, 14 May 2010 18:23:57 +0000

HarborSide Club at 70 West is a premier condominium project located on the Crystal Coast region of North Carolina. The eight-story cast-in-place structural frame totaled over 180,000 SF of finished slab area, and was topped out weeks ahead of schedule.

Central Prison Regional Medical Center & Mental Health Facility

hrmanager — Fri, 14 May 2010 18:23:17 +0000

The North Carolina Department of Corrections Central Prison Regional Medical Center will serve as a comprehensive general and specialty outpatient clinic for inmates at the North Carolina Central Prison System. Blair’s work on this project consists of two 5 story buildings, each with a structural concrete frame, plus a 3-story linking corridor with a cast-in-place basement.

About Us

hrmanager — Fri, 14 May 2010 17:13:07 +0000

Since its inception in 1990, Blair has consistently grown the breadth and depth of its concrete services and extended its geographic range from North Carolina to include the entire Southeast and portions of the mid-Atlantic region. Over the past 20 years, Blair expanded from its roots in concrete finishing into foundation and wall work, vertical mid- to high-rise concrete, and finally structural cast-in-place concrete frames and tilt-up construction.

In January of 2009, Blair became a wholly owned subsidiary of Donley’s, a diversified contractor with offices in Ohio, Virginia and North Carolina. Donley’s is known for its expertise in structural and architectural concrete construction. As a subsidiary of Donley’s, Blair now offers expanded resources including additional concrete formwork inventory, added experienced personnel and the bonding capacity to take on concrete work projects ranging from as little as $100,000 up to $80 million.

Our Vision: To be the premiere concrete contractor in all of our markets.

Our Mission: To provide superior concrete construction at competitive prices, principled by:

Safety First
Integrity
Respect for others
A commitment to quality
Professionalism
Profitability
Work/Life balance
Long-term relationships