Industry Experience

What P.rescribed S.tructural I.ntegrity is all about.

With 20+ years of experience in the ready-mix concrete industry, Keith Korthuis brings to the table an extensive array of mix design creation and knowledge. His wide diversity of ready-mix concrete application experiences has given him a front row seat to the challenges, unique conditions, and stringent demands that so often are required in mix design development and performance.

The mix designs that have been created over the years, and their production as ready-mix concrete, have been put into service and are serving communities in Washington, Oregon, Idaho, Alaska, California, Hawaii, Guam, British Columbia, and Japan. Mixes have come under the scrutiny of a wide range of architects, engineers, and governing bodies including WSDOT, ODOT, CalTrans, Seattle DOT, United States Corps of Engineers, United States National Park Service, and the United States Navy. Mixes have been successfully applied in interior flooring for commercial warehousing, heavy industrial/commercial service, bridges and superstructures, marine floats, exterior paving and/or WSDOT PCC paving, highly congested reinforcement areas where Self Compacting Concrete (SCC) mixes have been utilized, water and wastewater treatment plants, micro-colloidal mix applications to increase resistance of chemical attack, and freezer/cold storage applications.

As an independent consultant specializing in ready-mix concrete, Keith has an extensive working knowledge of the qualities, characteristics, and integrity of mix designs. He has a wide scope of experience with lightweight concrete, marine concrete, grouts, fireproofing, paving, and early strength mix design applications. Additionally, with the increasing focus on improving the environmental impact of construction materials on any type of project, he has taken the initiative to increase and improve his knowledge of how the use of ready-mix concrete can provide positive and sustainable solutions. The opportunity to improve on the reduction of both the embodied carbon footprint of the materials being provided and the long term operational carbon footprint of a project abound.

Past Experiences Served:

Apartment Complexes, Banks, Bridges, Cell Towers, Co-Generation Plants, Commercial Warehouses, Condominium Complexes, Crypts, Deep Shaft Piling, Dormitories, Floating Concrete Docks, Hospitals, Hotels, Infrastructure Superstructures, Industrial Warehouses, Interstate Paving, Mass Footings, Mixed Use Complexes, Oil Refineries, Parking Garages, Parking Lots, Post-Tensioned Decks, Pre-stress Precast Concrete, Residential, Elementary/Middle/High Schools, Ski Tower Foundations, Swimming Pools, Theaters, Tilt-ups, Underground Water/Runoff Vaults, Underwater Concrete, University Academic/Instructional Facilities, Waste Water Treatment Plants, Water Treatment Plants

Mix Designs in Service:

Controlled Density Fill (CDF), Bridge Deck, Chemical Resistant, Column, Decorative, Fireproofing, Footing, Grout, Hollow Core Plank Fill, Low Shrinkage Flooring, Marine, Masonry Block Grout, Mass Concrete, Piling, Post-Tension, Precast Concrete, Pre-stress Concrete, Shotcrete, Self Compacting (SCC), Tilt Panel, Underwater, Wall.