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Posted: May 22, 2009
Kingston Block & Masonry Supply manufactures sustainable CMUs
As an innovative leader in the concrete and masonry industry, Kingston Block & Masonry Supply, LLC has taken a profound role in manufacturing sustainable Concrete Masonry Units (CMU). With the global concern for sustainable building on the rise, Kingston Block & Masonry Supply, LLC understood the importance of this issue, prompting them to reduce their carbon footprint by introducing Pozzotive CMU & Pozzotive Plus CMU. Made from post-consumer recycled materials, managing partner, Louis Grasso, Jr., LEED-AP said, "We've taken your glass bottles and put them into something more useful than a landfill - our CMU."
Grasso, LEED-AP and member of the board of directors with the New York State Concrete Masonry Association (NYSCMA), is eager to get this product on the market and into every sustainable building project. "During our first quarter of 2009, Kingston Block & Masonry Supply, LLC has used over 250 tons of Pozzotive in the production of our Pozzotive CMU and Pozzotive Plus CMU. Thus, saving over 500,000 pounds of carbon dioxide emissions," said Grasso at a recent company meeting.
With a corporate office in New Rochelle, N.Y., an architectural design and sales center in the Riverdale section of the Bronx and a manufacturing facility and masonry supply yard as well as a sales center in Kingston, N.Y. - Kingston Block & Masonry Supply, LLC is a pioneer in the manufacturing of sustainable, architectural blocks in the New York metropolitan area.
Affiliations include the United States Green Building Council (USGBC) and the USGBC New York Chapter, AIA Westchester/Mid-Hudson Counties, the National and New York State Concrete Masonry Associations, as well as the Bronx and Ulster County Chambers of Commerce. Projects include the new Yankee Stadium, Bronx, N.Y.; IBM - Fishkill, N.Y.; Bronx Library, Bronx, N.Y.; Orange County Choppers, Newburgh, N.Y.; Staten Island Ferry Terminal, amongst others.
For more information on Kingston Block & Masonry Supply, LLC visit www.kingstonblock.com.
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