building systems chomarat north america key people thomas holmes chairman products carboncast high performance insulated wall panels carboncast insulated architectural cladding carboncast architectural cladding carboncast double tees website altusprecast.com altusgroup inc. is a national partnership of 17 precast concrete companies and seven industry suppliers founded in july 2003 to develop manufacture and market precast concrete innovations throughout north america . 1 innovations include the carboncast line of technology that uses c grid carbon fiber grid for shear reinforcing developed by chomarat north america . contents 1 history 2 operations 3 precaster members 4 innovation partners 5 references 6 external links history edit altusgroup emerged from a development initiative between oldcastle precast and chomarat north america formerly techfab llc . chomarat north america first conceived commercial grid structures using fiberglass roving and epoxy in 1997 . it was initially named petrogrid and introduced by amoco fabrics & fibers co. in 1998 to create geo grids for the road paving market . in 1998 99 chomarat north america and oldcastle precast entered a joint development agreement to explore the use of carbon fiber structural grids for use in concrete . the original precast product champion and technology visionary was harold messenger . from 1998 2001 development efforts focused on product process testing and engineering design validation surrounding grid use in concrete . dr. thomas harmon 2 a professor of engineering at washington university st. louis provided primary research support for the initiative also co funded by both companies . early research and development works serve as the engineering design basis used today to design and manufacture carboncast . operations edit altusgroup emerged from a development initiative between oldcastle precast and chomarat north america formerly techfab llc and operates under the concept of co opetition . member companies collaborate and share information to advance the development and marketing of carboncast and other technologies but compete for jobs through the conventional sales and bidding process . its member companies place volunteer representatives on committees that oversee the policies and function of the organization 3 board of directors appointed officials establish an overall strategy for organization and set policies for the management of the enterprise marketing a committee handles communications and maintains national marketing initiatives for new product sales opportunities at each of the companies . technical a technical committee oversees the use of the technology in the plant and field to establish best practices and test results for all products developed and marketed . precaster members edit oldcastle precast building systems high concrete group llc metromont corporation heldenfels enterprises inc. 4 knife river shockey precast group blakeslee prestress encon united gprm prestress enterprise precast concrete inc. gage brothers concrete wells concrete products central pre mix prestress chomarat north america international precast solutions llc 5 mid states concrete industries strescon limited rocky mountain prestress innovation partners edit basf admixtures inc. high concrete accessories jvi meadow burke products references edit six form first ever precast concrete partnership retrieved 2010 06 11 thomas harmon professor & director of undergraduate studies the clifford w. murphy professor of civil engineering precast licensor boosts national network retrieved 2010 06 10 carbon fiber precast group taps heldenfels enterprises retrieved 2010 06 10 international precast solutions becomes 14th member of altusgroup retrieved 2011 11 17 external links edit official website for carboncast retrieved from https en.wikipedia.org w index.php title altusgroup & oldid 607511967 categories concrete navigation menu personal tools not logged intalkcontributionscreate accountlog in namespaces article talk variants views read edit view history more search navigation main pagecontentsfeatured contentcurrent eventsrandom articledonate to wikipediawikipedia store interaction helpabout wikipediacommunity portalrecent changescontact page tools what links hererelated changesupload filespecial pagespermanent linkpage informationwikidata itemcite this page print export create a bookdownload as pdfprintable version languages add links this page was last modified on 7 may 2014 at 18 03 . text is available under the creative commons attribution sharealike license ; additional terms may apply . by using this site you agree to the terms of use and privacy policy . wikipedia is a registered trademark of the wikimedia foundation inc. a non profit organization . privacy policy about wikipedia disclaimers contact wikipedia developers cookie statement mobile view