Texas Industries With Extreme Makeover: Home Edition Builds a New Home for a Texas Family; Episode Airs Sunday, October 10, 2010
October 08 2010 - 1:12PM
Between Sunday, July 25 and Saturday, July 31, 2010, Texas
Industries (NYSE:TXI) helped to build a new home for the Johnson
family with the crew of Extreme Makeover: Home Edition (EMHE). The
episode is scheduled to air at 7:00 p.m. Central Time on Sunday,
October 10, 2010 on ABC.
Eric and Elaine Johnson – who counsel couples and connect urban
African-Americans with the outdoors – shared a single bedroom with
their five girls in a 720-square foot A-frame with a variety of
structural issues and other problems, partly left behind from
Hurricane Ike in 2008. All that changed as TXI partnered with
HHN Homes of Houston, Texas to provide the concrete and masonry
cement for this exceptional project. TXI employees from the South
Texas Ready Mix group dedicated their time and efforts to the
project from start to finish. The tight time frame required to
tear down an existing home and rebuild in less than one week is a
daunting task, and TXI's South Texas Ready Mix, Cement and Package
Teams all played critical roles in meeting the deadline.
TXI's concrete used in this foundation was specifically designed
to be highly workable and flowable, but also to set up in the rapid
time frame needed to keep the project moving. The high early
strength requirement, along with the need for long-term durability
made TXI Texcrete™ the product of choice for the project. The
concrete was placed like normal concrete, had great workability and
met the required strength on schedule. Coordination with
production, drivers and quality control technicians to organize
placement of this special mix design was essential for TXI's
success as part of this project. The TXI QC team was on-site
for most of the 24-hour period while the concrete was placed, and
the pour was supported by two shifts of drivers. In addition
to the concrete, the TXI Package Group supplied its Fiber Base Coat
Stucco Mix for the exterior finish of the home. The entire
process was accomplished through the hard work of about 30
employees working alongside with the Extreme Makeover: Home Edition
crew on the project during the week, and despite adverse rainy
weather conditions which caused many challenges. TXI employees
helped to make this Texas Extreme Makeover: Home Edition a success.
Check your local listing and MARK YOUR CALENDAR for this episode of
Extreme Makeover: Home Edition on October 10th!
The Emmy award winning reality program "Extreme Makeover: Home
Edition," is in its 8th season, is produced by Endemol USA, a
division of Endemol Holding. It is executively-produced by George
Verschoor and Brady Connell. David Goldberg is Chairman, Endemol
North America. The show airs Sundays from 8:00-9:00 p.m., ET on
ABC.
TXI is the largest producer of cement in Texas and a major
cement producer in California. TXI is also a major supplier of
construction aggregate, ready-mix concrete and concrete
products.
The Texas Industries, Inc. logo is available at
http://www.globenewswire.com/newsroom/prs/?pkgid=6602
CONTACT: Texas Industries, Inc.
David Perkins, Corporate Director Communications And
Government Affairs
972.647.3911
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