When the ribbon is cut, it will fall to a floor of concrete. When visitors tour the $20 million facility, First Wausau Tower at First and Scott streets, they will tread on the material that serves as the backbone to it all.

About 8,000 total cubic yards of locally produced high-strength concrete, from County Materials, form each of the 11 stories, as well as the I-shaped sheer wall that runs up the core of the building. That’s more than the 6,000 cubic yards that County Materials supplied to the McCleary Bridge on 17th Street, and is enough to fill the infield at Athletic Park to a height of 26 feet.

“We had to anticipate with each lift; and pour, lift, strip and jump (to the next floor),” said Dan Carl, who oversaw the concrete pours for Miron Construction, one of the building’s initial tenants. “We always tried to stay two floors ahead of the steel work going on behind us. So we needed trucks there about every 10-15 minutes, and County Materials was able to do that.”

Some 80 percent of the building’s space has been leased, and its first tenants already have moved in. With its adjustable, open concept, window views are available to most of those inside. While those who happened to pass the construction site were able to check on the progress of the project with their own eyes, Miron Construction kept a visual record with a Webcam trained on the site at http://mironconst.oxblue.com/cam1/.

County Materials operates 30 locations serving the Midwest. The family-owned, American manufacturing company is an industry leader and a diversified supplier of construction and landscaping products for residential, commercial, industrial and municipal project applications.
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