Argos USA has a strong track record of quality and innovation across the spectrum of concrete projects including residential, commercial, highways and bridges, and public works. Browse through a few samples from our portfolio:
Margate Tower Luxury Condominiums
Project Type: Commercial
Location: Myrtle Beach, SC
Cubic Yards: 66,000
Date: Fall 2002 – Spring 2004
For this 29-story beachfront tower, consistent concrete quality was essential. The contractor specified that all concrete was to be batched to exact specifications at the plant and no water added on site. All 66,000 cubic yards were poured with zero failures – not even marginal breaks. We now offer this premium service on other high-spec projects.
Main Place LEED Office Building
Project Type: Commercial, Sustainable
Location: Houston, TX
Cubic Yards: 90,000
Date: 2010
This signature 46-story office tower located in downtown Houston is slated to receive LEED-CS Platinum Pre-certification. Using lightweight aggregates to meet environmental specifications, we pumped them 43 stories – the highest that this product has ever been pumped.
Crawford Poured-In-Place Wall Project in Denver, NC
Project Type: Commercial–Office/Manufacturing Bldg.
Location: Denver, NC
Customer: Denver Construction Company
Cubic Yards: 2,000
Date: 2007
Children's Medical Center of Dallas – Tower 3A
Project Type: Commercial
Location: Dallas, TX
Contractor: Balfour Beatty Construction
Cubic Yards: 15,000
Date: 2006
This $44.5 million, 14-story bed tower and research facility, required a precise color match between new columns and existing walls.
Presbyterian Hospital of Dallas – Harmon Tower
Project type: Commercial
Location: Dallas, TX
Contractor: Austin Commercial
Cubic Yards: 25,000
Date: 2007
Construction of this 454,000-square foot in-patient bed tower required close coordination to avoid disrupting the operation of the hospital.
Saginaw High School
Project Type: Commercial
Location: Saginaw, TX
Contractor: Charter Builders
Subcontractor: GC & DRM Concrete
Cubic Yards: 35,000
Date: 2010
We successfully met a challenging pour schedule to complete this $129 mil 462,000 sq. ft. high school, 7,500-seat stadium and 129,000-sq. ft. career and tech center.
Texas Children's Maternity Center
Project Type: Commercial
Location: Houston Texas, Medical Center
Cubic Yards: 120,000 (25,000 for foundation)
Date: 2010 – 2011
The foundation or matt was poured on three different occasions with a total yardage for the foundation of 25,000 cubic yards.
University of Texas at Arlington – College Park
Project Type: Commercial
Location: Arlington, TX
Contractor: Austin Commercial
Cubic Yards: 20,000
Date: 2010
904,000 square feet, 259 dorm rooms, 78 apartment rooms, 1,800 parking spaces
University of Texas at Dallas
Project Type: Commercial
Location: Dallas, TX
Contractor: Austin Commercial/Subcontractor: GC & CSA Concrete
Cubic Yards: 8,000
Date: 2010
148,000-square-foot Student Living and Learning Dormitory
North Hills Mall
Project Type: Commercial
Location: Raleigh, NC
Cubic Yards: 100,000
Date: 2004
Dell Manufacturing Facility
Project Type: Commercial
Location: Kernersville, NC
Cubic Yards: 21,605
Date: July 2005
This fast-paced project required most pours to take place at night. Largest single pour was 1,700 cubic yards.
Tilghman Beach Resort
Project Type: Commercial
Location: North Myrtle Beach, SC
Cubic Yards: 18,000
Date: 2007
UNC at Chapel Hill Bell Tower Development
Project Type: Commercial, Sustainable
Location: Chapel Hill, NC
Cubic Yards: 21,408
Date: To be Completed in 2012
For colored concrete walls, we developed a custom color that met specifications to adapt to nine different concrete mix designs. A mix of 50% Portland cement and 50% slag cement optimized concrete performance and sustainability. The use of integrally colored concrete walls helped the building achieve LEED Silver status.
Mansfield High School
Project Type: Commercial
Location: Mansfield, TX
Cubic Yards: 2,937
Date: 2010
Conroe ISD Sports Complex
Project Type: Commercial
Location: Houston, TX
Cubic Yards: 18,000
Date: 2007
This project required numerous large pours of over 800 yards in a day.
University of Phoenix
Project Type: Commercial
Location: Houston, TX
Cubic Yards: 5,800
Date: 2008
Grangerland Junior High School
Project Type: Commercial
Location: Houston, TX
Cubic Yards: 12,000
Date: 2006
R. Kernersville Medical Center
Project Type: Commercial
Location: Kernersville, NC
Cubic Yards: 11,300
Date: November 2010
The concrete mix was made to be fast-paced.
S. Raleigh Convention Center
Project Type: Commercial
Location: Raleigh, NC
Cubic Yards: 35,000
Date: November 2007
The concrete structure consisted of mainly 4000-psi. An aggressive and time-sensitive schedule required the design of a concrete mix to achieve high-early strengths and early-form removal.
