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Nov 3, 2022

I recently attended the annual CAMX Conference [October 17-20, 2022] where I had the honor to present Hota GangaRao, West Virginia University Wadsworth Professor and Director of Constructed Facilities Center – Wadsworth...

Oct 21, 2022

Five years ago, Mathu Solo wouldn’t have believed Tower Tech could have achieved the level of success it has with Creative Composites Group.Mat joined Tower Tech over 25 years ago and formed a good relationship with the president...

Sep 8, 2022

The third installment of our Inspection Log Series takes us to the waterfront. During my East Coast trip, I was able to examine installations that included Creative Composites Group’s Fiber Reinforced Polymer (FRP) fenders,...

Sep 1, 2022

In my first blog of this Inspection Log series, I talked about being able to see first-hand, how our Fiber Reinforced Polymer (FRP) bridge decks were holding up. As part of my trip along the East Coast, I also visited the sites...

Jul 29, 2022

Last month I traveled up the East Coast to inspect 19 Fiber Reinforced Polymer (FRP) infrastructure projects that have been designed and fabricated by Creative Composites Group (CCG) over the past 10 years. As a supplier, our...

Jul 21, 2022

Wood has been the most utilized material for utility poles for many decades. But wood has always been at the mercy of Mother Nature. Humans haven’t yet created an artificial process to create wood like we have for lab-grown...

Jun 28, 2022

Any utility providing power to rural areas faces unique challenges. So too do utilities serving areas that experience regular, extreme weather events. One Maine utility had to address both.

The utility faced several challenges:...

Jun 23, 2022

Of all the water on Earth, 97% of it is salt water. Saltwater ecosystems provide some of our most life-sustaining environmental benefits, including sequestering carbon at 50% higher rates than tropical forests and providing more...

Jun 14, 2022

Peanut butter and jelly, football and tailgating – some things are just better together. We are proud to be celebrating one year of the union of Creative Pultrusions, Inc., E.T. Techtonics, Kenway Composites, Tower Tech and...

Jun 10, 2022

The average lifespan of a wood utility pole could be many years – but not when woodpeckers have anything to say about it.

Woodpeckers present the single largest threat to the durability and longevity of wood utility poles in the...