  Smith-Midland Awarded Prestigious CUP Award for Fort Story Project
The company’s submission for its Military Combat Facility project replicating an Iraqi village utilizing their Easi-Set Precast Concrete Buildings, garnered third place in the CUP Awards program for the Above Ground category. The CUP Awards Program is an annual competition for NPCA members recognizing projects promoting innovative and cost-saving advantages of precast concrete over competing materials. The award was presented at the Salute to Excellence Award Banquet on Saturday, February 21 in Houston, Texas. The Gala is the closing event for the NPCA Winter Conference.
Various characteristics of the Easi-Set and Easi-Span buildings used at the Military Combat Facility made them a perfect fit for the project. Easi-Set buildings cost substantially less than equivalent in-place construction. Because of the precast “floating slab” foundation floor slab, no foundations or footings were required beyond level compacted sand or gravel. Because of this, the Military Combat Facility personnel did not have carry out intensive site preparation before the buildings arrived on site. Additionally, there is a substantial time savings because buildings can be installed the same day they are delivered. The buildings meet the UL-752 bullet-resistance standard and are rated for wind loads of 130 mph, both of which are important considerations for live-fire training in a hurricane-prone area. The patented post-tensioned building system provides even greater weather-tightness and impact resistance the precast roof and floors.
The entire project was completed in the summer of 2008 at a grand total of more than $500,000. Smith-Midland Corporation is a publicly traded company (OTC BB:
SMID, SMIWC; Boston Stock Exchange: SMM, SMM/W). Smith-Midland
develops, manufactures and sells a broad array of precast concrete
products for use primarily in the construction, transportation
and utilities industries. Smith-Midland has manufacturing facilities
located in Midland, Va. and Reidsville, N.C. Easi-Set Industries,
a wholly owned subsidiary of Smith-Midland Corporation, licenses
the production of Smith-Midland developed products around the
world. For more information please call (540) 439-3266 or visit
www.smithmidland.com or www.smcprecastbuildings.com.
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MIDLAND,
Va. – (Month
1, 2008) Officials at Smith-Midland Corporation were recently
the recipients of the prestigious Creative Use of Precast (CUP) Award
for a building project completed in Virginia Beach, Virginia.
This is the
Officials at Military Combat Facility wanted to construct a replica of an
Iraqi village in order to provide a realistic training environment
for logistics troops. Smith-Midland produced a total of 35 Easi-Set
and Easi-Span buildings of various sizes, all customized and configured
to realistically depict what troops would find in a Southwest
Asian village…from 
Ultimately,
the ability to make the environment as realistic as possible helps
troops to train the way they will fight; such training saves lives,
because it draws on lessons learned in combat.Various aspects
of Smith-Midland’s precast concrete buildings, the centerpiece
of the village, enhanced this realism, while helping the Army
deliver the training on time and on budget.
