Images Set in Concrete

We're visiting yet another plant this week - a cement plant in Florida. The following images were shot to offer a scope of the size of this plant and its panoramic landscape - varying at a distance of 10-30 miles away, we could see the entire skyline from Ft. Lauderdale all the way to Miami and South Beach! Enjoy...


First, the freight elevator takes us up to around 350 feet...


The various plant systems lay before us - don't know what is what, really.


This is one of several ponds - that was an easy call, I know.


Their concrete fabrication inventory is enormous and provides the components needed for tilt-up concrete buildings and other structures.


Meanwhile, train cars snake around the complex delivering raw process materials.


On our floor, huge steel process structures surround us doing the job of making cement.


At over 300 feet elevation, these huge process ducts dwarf the superstructure holding them up.


Our emissions testing equipment draws flue samples out of the stack for characterization analysis. Flow velocity, CO, dioxins and particulate are several of the parameters being measured at this site.


I'd love to tell you what this is for... I just can't.


Massive piping meets up with even more massive vessels as the cement process goes on and on.


Appearing like a giant waffle iron, these forms add rigidity to the structural steel they are welded to.