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Atlantic Metrocast has its origins in the treated wood business,
making products used for foundation piling, railroad ties and
bridge trestles. Since switching gears from wood to concrete,
the company has grown to become one of the nation’s leading
producers of precast/pre-stressed concrete pilings.
By Mark Halsall
Atlantic Metrocast Inc. is in the business of making precast/pre-stressed concrete pilings, girders and
beams, and its handiwork can be found in numerous impressive structures situated around the eastern
and southern United States.
They include the new South Norfolk Jordan Bridge, a 5,000-foot-long segmental bridge over the Elizabeth
River connecting the Virginian cities of Chesapeake and Portsmouth, the U.S. Navy Academy’s new Center for
Cyber Security Studies building that’s nearing completion in Annapolis, Md., and the brand-new terminal at the
Louis Armstrong International Airport in New Orleans, La., that’s currently under construction.
According to Bill Crossman, Atlantic Metrocast’s president and CEO, the company supplied over 2,000 piles
for the deep foundation work that underlies the new airport terminal structure in New Orleans.
“We’re very proud of the fact that this building has our support underneath it and it will last hundreds of
years,” said Crossman, who is the principal owner of Atlantic Metrocast. He adds his company also supplied some
3,000 piles for the reconstruction of the Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool in Washington, D.C., seven years ago..
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