High Country Concrete, Inc. (formerly High Country Contractors, Inc.) began in 1990 when Paul Crawford, Sr. brought the company to Roanoke to work on the 26 story Dominion Bank Tower. The Tower, renamed for Wachovia Bank, is an all concrete structure that dominates the Roanoke skyline. In April 2007, High Country Contractors was purchased by Robert Allen Stewart, Jr. (Bobby) and the name changed to High Country Concrete, Inc.
High Country began with 30 employees and by 1992 had doubled it’s workforce to 60. The quick expansion was due in part to High Country’s work on the Hotel Roanoke renovation and addition. The project at Hotel Roanoke consisted of a complete, floor by floor remodel and new convention center addition.
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Insulating Concrete Forms (ICFs) are stay-in-place formwork for energy-efficient, cast-in-place reinforced-concrete walls.
The forms are interlocking modular units that are dry-stacked (without mortar) and filled with concrete. The forms lock together somewhat like Lego bricks and serve to create a form for the structural walls of a building. Concrete is pumped into the cavity to form the structural element of the walls. Usually, reinforcing steel (rebar) is added before concrete placement to give the resulting walls flexural strength, similar to bridges and high-rise buildings made of concrete (see Reinforced concrete).
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