Austin Construction News • Dec 2016
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Skate parks and shotcrete
Yann and Jamie Curtis have recently branched out to include structural shotcrete projects.
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rothers Yann and Jamie Curtis have always been close, so when Jamie – a huge skateboarder – suggested that the family, including mom and dad, start a skate park business, everyone was all for it. That was in 2002 and the company was christened Skate Park of Austin. They owned and operated the indoor skate park – all wooden – for almost five years. At the same time, skateboarding was becoming a pretty popular sport across America and Yann and Jamie soon started receiving calls from municipalities in the area that wanted their own public skate parks. “So, in 2007 we moved into concrete and founded SPA Skateparks (SPA) which still operates today,” Yann says. Their concrete skate parks for those municipalities carried them through the recession. In 2009, the Curtis brothers opened Curtis Concrete Pumping (CCP). Yann is pleased to say that the company’s employees are long term. “We’ve had the same core crew for
over four years now,” he says. “We’re a team. For our specialized work, it has to be that way. And it’s fun.” Recently, CCP has been specializing in structural shotcrete projects. “We are now doing sub-grade parking garage walls,” Yann says. “In one day, we can pour and place 70- to 100-ft of wall, tool in joints, finish concrete to spec, and implement the curing process. Less formwork, less labor costs, less crane time and higher durability of the concrete itself makes the shotcrete process a desirable option to the traditional cast-inplace method.” CCP stays busy all the time and Yann says the company overlaps jobs by a few months to keep the crews working. Their specialized work allows them to travel and most of their projects are custom designed. A current project in Frisco contains their largest visual spectacle to date: a 30-ft long, 13-ft high quarter pipe and a replica swimming pool complete with tiles, stairs and drains. –cw
It’s an Austin thing
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L-R: Jaime Hutton with SpawGlass; Luke Nelson with Datum Engineers; Cris Ruebush with PGAL; Josh Wise with SpawGlass
pawGlass Contractors had its annual Client & Subcontractor Appreciation Festival, SpawGlass City Limits, to show everybody a good time right before the start of Austin City Limits (ACL) annual event. –cw
Terri Mathieu with SpawGlass; Tina Rivas with SpawGlass
Mike Sanford with SpawGlass; Pauline Reese
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