New BC Parks Picnic Table

MacKay Precast Products manufactured and installed 100 newly designed concrete picnic tables at Golden Ears and Rathtrevor Provincial Parks between September and November 2011.  These tables were specially designed for BC Parks in a style to encourage individuals with mobility issues to access more of the beautiful parkland available free to the public. The tables have seperate seating not attached to the table base therefore eliminating a possible tripping hazard for young children and others who found it difficult to step over the table leg. The unique design includes textured and coloured concrete as well as and imbedded BC Parks logo. The original Western Red Cedar used for previous picnic table top & seats are being reused on the new tables. Look for the new tables at Golden Ears Park in Maple Ridge or Rathtrevor Park in Parksville BC

Anti-graffit Sealer

Graffiti "artists" create beautiful work to improve the appearance of  plain unattended wall spaces usually at the request of the walls owner. Graffiti vandals do not fit into this category but choose to deface  property at a huge cost to private and public owners for removal and repair. There are now very good "Anti-graffit"  sealers which can be applied to concrete which lessen the cost and time spent removing unwanted graffiti.

Eco-Friendly Concrete

"Environmentally Friendly" is a loose term used in maketing to inform consumers about attributes of a specific product or service that has an environmental benefit with little or no impact on the native ecosystem, is an alternative to goods produced with chemicals or synthetics or is positive in terms of its impact on the environment.
Concrete has its nay sayers but there are changes in the industry which make concrete a more desireable product.
CONCRETE SUBSTITUTES: A new promising green concrete said to be highly sustainable is high volume flyash concrete. Flyash is a coal burning power plant by-product which historically 75% of the ash produced ended up in landfills. Science has now found recycled flyash forms a compound similar to Portland cement when mixed with lime and water. High volume flyash can displace more than 25% of the cementitious content in a mix design. Flyash concrete has been difficult to source but with increased demand there are more producers and distributors working to rectify this problem.  In time other new substitutes such as Ash Crete, Blast Furnace Slag and Carbon Concrete, which are all showing promise to make concete a more eco-friendly product , may become more widely available.