PRO: An ACI Center of Excellence for Advancing Productivity announced its first members – Ceco Concrete Construction, LLC, and The Conco Companies. Both organizations have joined PRO as Silver members.

Ceco is a nationwide leader in cast-in-place concrete construction. Originating in 1912 in Omaha, Nebraska, Ceco is now headquartered in Kansas City, Missouri, with 19 locations across the country. The Conco Companies began in 1959 and are headquartered in the Bay Area in California, serving a wide range of areas on the West Coast while also performing shotcrete and rebar installations. Both companies’ innovative reputations will be upheld through their membership with PRO.

“I’m delighted that PRO’s early members are long-established, highly successful, well-respected concrete contractors with strong histories of design assist collaboration,” said Phil Diekemper, executive director of PRO. “PRO will seek to highlight their success stories as models for improving construction productivity while adding value to projects and their owners.”

PRO and its members aim to advance new technologies and processes that improve concrete construction productivity beyond historic levels. To learn more about PRO and to get involved, visit www.concreteproductivity.org.