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Article: The cost of doing business with concrete.(Erlin & Hime on Concrete)
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- Concrete Construction
- Article date:
- November 1, 2005
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Some senior engineering students asked about the price of concrete and what goes into it. Their guess of its cost was astonishingly high.
Check out the prices at a grocery store, or even better, ask about the current price of oil. Meat at $3 to $5 or more per pound. Several dollars for a partially filled box of breakfast cereal measurable in ounces. But for concrete delivered to a jobsite, around $75 per cubic yard--about 2 cents per pound. What a deal! No cholesterol, built-in durability, and almost guaranteed to survive--if properly maintained--longer than we will. A true bargain by any standard!
Portland cement costs less than 4 cents per pound. How ...