Question… what is the most utilized substance in the world? If you choose water, you are correct, kinda obvious, right? But if you were asked, what is the second? How many people would have said Concrete before we started reading this article? I certainly would not have. but it is true. Concrete at over 10 billion tons a year is the second most utilized substance in the world!

For all of us, whether we are contractors, equipment and materials manufacturers, distributers, sales teams, architects, designers, end-users and many more, we all deal to one degree or another with concrete, most of us, every day. We spec it, prep for it, place it, grind and profile it, even polish it and we have probably never given much thought to where it came from, the history of Concrete.