Committed to Expertise

These are just some of the Mid-States Concrete Industries Wall Panels that were part of CCI’s Phoenix Warehouse Distribution Center project.

Since 1946, Mid-States Concrete Industries has produced structural and architectural precast concrete systems that provide our partners with high quality building materials with sustaining performance.

With dedicated preconstruction, engineering and design, project management, production, and installation teams, Mid-States has what it takes to meet your precast needs and find the right solutions for your projects.

Your project starts with our Preconstruction team, which boasts more than 140 years of combined experience. The team includes dedicated sales professionals, estimators, and a preconstruction engineer to get your precast project off to the right start. Our sales professionals are eager to talk with you about upcoming projects and, with the expertise of our preconstruction engineer, help you design your precast project. Once we have worked together to create drawings, our estimating experts will put together an all-inclusive proposal for your review.

Nicole Shelton, Project Manager, CHC, with CORE Construction, said she appreciates the ability to ring up Troy Yaun, one of Mid-States Preconstruction Sales team members, and bend his ear about how the precast schedule works and get details to help her prepare for a future project and accommodate that schedule. She recently worked with the Mid-States team on CORE’s El Paso-Gridley CUSD project, which included nearly 5,000 square feet of Hollowcore and Solid Slabs and 178 Wall Panels.

“I know that our preconstruction team really appreciates the collaboration of Mid-States on the design of the project,” Shelton said.

Once your team has awarded the precast portions of your project to Mid-States Concrete, it heads to our Engineering and Design team. With more than 100 years of combined experience, our Engineering and Design team asks questions and listens to your objectives and goals so we can apply the latest design and engineering techniques to your projects. Once our drawings are approved by your team, we’ll send shop drawings to our production team to get to work on the manufacturing of your project.

Often working simultaneously with Preconstruction and Engineering and Design, our Project Management team focuses on how to install your precast components in the most effective way for your jobsite. With more than 70 years of combined experience, our Project Management team works with your team to ensure access to the project site, the right size crane, the best sequence to install the precast concrete, the number of loads to deliver per day, and so much more.

“I’ve always been impressed by Mid-States’ communication and making sure we are looking ahead at things and making sure we are trying to get ahead on issues or anything that may come up in the future,” Shelton said.

As a PCI-Certified Plant, the Mid-States Concrete Production team adheres to strict standards regarding the quality planning and the process of manufacturing precast and prestressed concrete components according to requirements specifically developed for the types of products being manufactured which provides greater assurance to owners, architects, engineers, and contractors that precast concrete components will be manufactured and installed according to stringent industry standards. With combined experience of more than 1,000 years, our Production team ensures that each of your custom precast components is designed to its exact specifications to ensure pieces can be installed smoothly once they arrive on your jobsite.

Mid-States Concrete is also a PCI-Certified Erector, which provides assurance that the high-quality precast concrete components produced by our PCI-Certified Plant are erected to the exact standards expected by owners, developers, architects, contractors, and the precast concrete structures industry as a whole. Our Installation team has a combined 170 years of experience installing your precast concrete components. This team ensures that the highest level of safety, quality, and efficiency are maintained throughout the installation of your project.

“[The Installation Team] did great,” said Aaron Combs, Project Manager with CCI. “The teams were there on time every day. They worked hard. They did everything they could. They kept the site clean and the communication from your team to my team was great.”

Mid-States Concrete recently worked with CCI on their Phoenix Warehouse Distribution Center projects, manufacturing and installing 246 Wall Panels.

“The quality was pretty spot on,” Combs said. “The punch list was pretty minimal of things that needed to get corrected and the guys took care of it.”

Working with precast from Mid-States Concrete gave CCI the flexibility needed on how to erect the building on a tight timeline. The project was started in March and turned over to the owner in December.

“At the end of the day, we’ve got a really good product and a happy client and it’s because of partners like you guys,” Combs said.

Committed to Safety

When it comes to our team, and the teams we work with, our number one priority is safety. We want everyone to go home to their families in the same condition at the end of their shift as they were in when they arrived for that shift.

Prioritizing safety also benefits the work we do for your projects. When team members feel safe, and operate safely, they remain part of the team longer, gaining more experience in producing and installing the highest quality precast concrete components. And when team members keep mind on task and do not get complacent with safety procedures, it helps them to avoid errors and injuries, produce the highest quality products, and ensure delivery deadlines are met. Team members operating safely in the plant and on job sites for installation prevent injuries, keeping projects moving forward.

For Mid-States Concrete Industries, our commitment to safety is above all else. We treat our team members like industrial athletes – ensuring the highest quality safety program to keep them from getting injured, and to eliminate risks wherever we can.

Through things like partnering with Athletico to create a warm-up program designed to stretch and strengthen our team members for the movements required of their jobs, to putting a detailed housekeeping program in place to eliminate hazards, to constantly evaluating our safety procedures, we keep our team members safe.

In 2022, Mid-States Concrete renewed its SHARP designation through OSHA for the third time, making us the only precaster in the United States to have this elite recognition. Mid-States first achieved this Safety & Health Achievement Recognition Program designation in July 2017.

“The safety culture and sustaining it is something we are very proud of,” said Mike Wolff, Vice President of Safety and Quality.

Additionally, the entire Mid-States Concrete Field Crew and all Plant Foremen have completed OSHA 30-hour training. All team members also annually participate in Safety Days – which serves as a refresher on all of our safety programming through both classroom learning and hands-on activity. Training is run by the Vice President of Safety and Quality, Safety Manager, and all Production Supervisors.

“We flow it through everyone to create ownership over safety,” Wolff said.

In 2022, Mid-States Concrete Industries had just five OSHA recordables. Mid-States Concrete Industries is also a PCI (Precast/Prestressed Concrete Institute) Certified Plant and PCI Certified Erector. These certifications provide assurance to owners, architects, engineers, and contractors that precast concrete components will be manufactured and installed according to stringent industry standards.

To ensure we constantly live up to our high safety and quality standards, we have several PCI Certified Field Auditors who go on site to audit the safety and quality procedures of Mid-States Concrete’s work on your projects. They complete a detailed safety and quality inspection specific to precast concrete. Every foreman has at least two project installations per year evaluated.

For Safety Manager Tracy Miller, one of the best things about the safety culture is watching the team embrace it so wholeheartedly.

“The best part is when you see them do the right thing when they think no one is looking,” Miller said.

Miller and Wolff also really appreciate that the entire team takes ownership of safety. In fact, while Miller reports on near misses on a weekly basis, the corrective actions and retraining often come from the person with the near miss. Our team members always bring a solution.

The safety team continues to evaluate, improve, and grow the Mid-States Concrete safety program to ensure the team always operates at the highest level of safety, keeping our team, and your team, as safe as possible.

Why do I love precast? Let me count the ways.

This five-story multi-family building under construction in Beloit, Wisc. features many precast elements including wall panels, beams, columns, delta beams, and hollowcore.

February has arrived – the month of love. But we’re not talking about mushy love here, we’re talking about strong love, a love of precast concrete. So, why should you love precast? Let us count the ways.

Precast concrete and precast, prestressed concrete excel in strength, sustainability, functionality, and durability. As it integrates easily with other systems and provides versatility, efficiency, and resiliency, it is a clear building choice for high-performance structures.

  1. Aesthetic Versatility
    Precast boasts a variety of finishes, custom form liners, graphic concrete, thin brick and more. It also comes in an (almost) unlimited array of colors, forms, textures, and shapes.

  2. Speed
    Time is money. Precast concrete’s speed through design, fabrication and erection help meet tight deadlines. Precast components are manufactured off-site, reducing the amount of time onsite. And they are ready to be erected with a just-in-time delivery to the jobsite when the general contractor needs it.

  3. Early Input
    Early design assistance is available to our customers – including layout, design, and value – as early as the schematic design phase, helping customers keep their projects on time, on budget, and on target.

  4. Open Floor Plate, Column-Free Space, Shallow Floor Thickness
    An open floor plate allows a flexible interior that can accommodate a variety of scenarios. Column-free space allows additional flexibility in floor plans and layouts. Shallow floor thicknesses with fewer beams provide unobstructed ceiling cavities for mechanical and electrical systems.

  5. Fire Resistance
    Precast concrete provides inherent fire protection and resiliency. Concrete does not combust and therefore helps contain fires in a controlled space. Precast hollowcore has a minimum one-hour fire rating and a structural topping can increase that up to a four-hour rating. When used for separation, precast concrete also helps prevent fire from spreading throughout a building or jumping from building to building.

  6. Blast Resistance
    For precast concrete components, blast-resistant design is primarily focused on the design of exterior building components and their connections, protecting those on the inside of a building from a blast.

  7. Ability to Withstand Severe Weather
    Precast concrete provides excellent protection against high winds, storm surge and flying debris, among many other high-performance attributes. It is often used in FEMA shelters, residential, institutional, public, government and other structures providing protection.

  8. Safety
    Plant casting keeps the site cleaner and eliminates trades from the construction zone, improving logistics and enhancing worker safety.

  9. All Weather Construction
    Precast concrete is plant-produced and trucked to the jobsite when needed. Unlike other products, precast concrete can be installed in cold weather, eliminating temperature related delays.

  10. Sound Attenuation
    Precast concrete’s mass provides an economical acoustical barrier to exterior or interior noise penetration. Very little sound is transmitted through precast concrete, making for a quieter, more comfortable living space for occupants.

  11. Inedibility & Resistance to Mildew and Rust
    Vermin and insects cannot destroy concrete because it is inedible. Concrete is also not susceptible to rust or mildew growth.

  12. Strength for Heavy Loads
    Reinforced precast concrete can handle heavy amounts of stress, point loads, and weight.

  13. Long Service Life and Low Maintenance
    Precast is a long-lasting, high performance material that will last decades. Precast facilities also require very low maintenance, which benefits building owners.

  14. Locally Sourced
    Concrete is a very common building material made of sand, gravel, cement, and water, and can be locally sourced to the precast plant. Transportation efforts produce low emissions, contributing to being an energy-efficient building material. Additionally, concrete plants are generally within a few hundred miles of a building site. This reduces the transportation required to ship heavy loads, as well as the associated energy and emissions.

And there you have it - 14 solid reasons to fall in love with precast this month. Interested in learning more about how precast can be integrated into your next project? Contact our preconstruction team at sales@msprecast.com or 800.236.1072.