2011 Circle of Distinction Award Winner:  Best Integral Sink

2011 Circle of Distinction Mention:  Best Decorative Finish

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Concrete is a wonderful material to have in your home or office.  Because of modern techniques and materials, decorative concrete is more environmentally friendly than just about any other material.  It can also be given any color or texture to perfectly match the environment it will be used within.  Concrete is becoming more and more popular due to its environmental friendliness, its ability to be matched to any color, the possibility to create almost any finish, and to create virtually any desired shape and size.

Concrete Zen, a division of Take Pride Construction and Design, LLC, is dedicated to using over 100 years of combined engineering and tradesman experience to provide the absolute highest quality decorative concrete. We perform quality craftsmanship, fabrication & installation. We pride ourselves on using responsible, sustainable building materials & practices. One example of this is how we implement recycled glass, and VCAS into our concrete production. We believe in “giving back” through collaboration with local universities and artists, as well as by offering surplus cementitious materials to community organizations in need.

Concrete Zen strives to score as highly as possible on the LEED scale on all of our projects. LEED is an acronym that stands for Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design.

Concrete is a superior material for building sustainable structures. Among its other attributes, it is durable, uses abundant, local materials in its manufacture, has high reflectivity for reduced urban heat island effect and utilizes thermal mass to contribute to energy efficiency.

We help to make concrete greener by using VCAS POZZOLANS. VCAS white pozzolans are a by-product of reinforcement fiberglass made in a glass furnace. VCAS can replace 15-50% of cement powders used in concrete that adds sustainability to architectural precast products.

VCAS Pozzolans can:

• Reduce virgin material used in the manufacture of concrete
• Reduce disposal and increase use of a recovered industrial material
• Reduce cementitious material needed to achieve a specified strength
• Improve service life through greater concrete durability
• Increase whiteness/reflectivity of concrete
• Reduce energy by 3.5 million BTUs/ton cement replacement
• Reduce CO2 emissions by 2000 lbs/ton cement replacement

Concrete also offers the ability to be custom fabricated to any possible shape or design. If you’d like to discuss the benefits of what beautiful decorative concrete designed, fabricated and installed by Concrete Zen can do for you, contact us today.