Recent Projects

American Exchange Bank

Okemah Oklahoma Fall 2019

Installation of 20,000+ Modular brick units with dentil details at gables, cut archways and other custom brickwork that showcase the pride and craftsmanship our skilled masons possess. Dentils are found in ancient Greek and Roman architecture, and also in later styles such as Neoclassical, Federal, Georgian Revival, Greek Revival, Renaissance Revival, Second Empire, and Beaux-Arts architecture. The Roman architect Vitruvius (iv. 2) states that the dentil represents the end of a rafter (asser); and since it occurs in its most pronounced form in the Ionic temples of Asia Minor, the Lycian tombs and the porticoes and tombs of Persia, where it represents distinctly the reproduction in stone of timber construction. The earliest example is found carved into the rock of the tomb of Darius, c. 500 BC, reproducing the portico of his palace. Its first employment in Athens is in the cornice of the caryatid portico or tribune of the Erechtheum (480 BC). When subsequently introduced into the bed-mould of the cornice of the Choragic Monument of Lysicrates it is much smaller in its dimensions. In the later temples of Ionia, as in the temple of Priene, the larger scale of the dentil is still retained.[2] Later use The dentil was the chief feature employed in the bedmould by the Romans and in the Italian Renaissance architecture. As a general rule, the projection of the dentil is equal to its width, thus appearing square, and the intervals between are half this measure.

Anytime Fitness & Chaffee Vet

Fort Smith Arkansas Fall 2019

Installation of 40,000+ king brick with segmental archways. As far as is known, the ancient Romans were the first to develop the segmental arch. The closed-spandrel Pont-Saint-Martin bridge in the Aosta Valley in Italy dates to 25 BC.[5] The first open-spandrel segmental arch bridge is the Anji Bridge over the Xiao River in Hebei Province in China, which was built in 610 AD.

Oaklawn Casino and Racing Resort

Hot Springs Arkansas winter 2019/2020

Installation of 4” and 8” burnished structural and non structural concrete masonry units (CMU). Burnished Blocks are manufactured by grinding the top surface off of a precision block face to reveal the aggregate matrix within the block. The installation of Burnished Block is similar to that of precision block, except that a sealer is usually applied afterwards to bring out the color of the aggregates. Burnished Blocks reveal the natural beauty of their multi-colored interior aggregates to create a finish similar to polished stone at a substantially reduced cost.