Colorado Shotcrete Staining – A Natural Environment Perfect for This Innovative Technique

Colored and patterned concrete have been used to enhance driveways, sidewalks, and patios for several years now.  However, colored and patterned concrete do not lend themselves well to being utilized on walls like shotcrete does. If you live in Arizona, Colorado, Nevada, New Mexico, Texas, or Utah, or have visited any of these states, you …

Shotcrete Market to Increase Further by 2020

This week, Businesswire produced a press release referencing an interesting report from a few months ago, published in Markets and Markets. The report details projections for the shotcrete and gunite industry from 2015 on to 2020. At Thorcon Shotcrete and Shoring, we might only serve a portion of the global sprayed concrete market, but we …

Shotcrete Helps Science Researchers

Shocrete is making the news again, this time not in the name of history and culture, but in the name of science. We’ve written a number of blogs on the contributions of shotcrete, but none have had so much to do with scientific research as this current one. Coming to us from Space.com, today we …

A History of Shotcrete and Gunite, Part 2

This week, we’re back with the second part of our history lesson. Read on to learn more about the history of shotcrete and gunite since the 1950s. We provide a variety of shotcrete and gunite services for our clients in Colorado and surrounding states from our home base near Denver in Littleton, Colorado. Some of …

A History of Shotcrete and Gunite, Part 1

It’s been a little while since we’ve provided a history lesson here at Thorcon Shotcrete and Shoring, so we’re taking the opportunity to expand on the history of one of our favorite topics: shotcrete and gunite. Here at our headquarters in Littleton, Colorado (near Denver), we provide superior shotcrete and shoring contracting services to the state of …

Start A New Season With Shotcrete and Gunite Solutions

Wednesday, September 23 will mark the first day of fall, and here in Littleton, Colorado, we know that winter isn’t far behind. In this part of the country, winter often means low temperatures and a lot of snow on the ground, so it makes construction projects difficult to complete for months at a time. That’s …

New Architectural Shotcrete Wall at the National Zoo

Shotcrete makes the news right at the end of this month with a story coming out of our nation’s capitol. The National Zoo in Washington D.C. got a new wall to replace “old structures along an extensive drop-off along the entrance road.” What’s neat about this wall is the story behind it, the quality of …

Thorcon’s Shotcrete Solution at Fountain, CO’s New Wal-Mart

At Thorcon Shotcrete and Shoring, we are proud to unveil footage of a fresh, new shotcrete project, which was completed earlier this month. We installed a beautiful new shotcrete wall for the parking lot at the new Wal-Mart supercenter and Sam’s Club, coming soon to Fountain, Colorado. As The Gazette reported earlier in the summer, …

How Shotcrete and Gunite Can Help Fight Terrorism

At the beginning of the month, there was a breakthrough in the formula for steel-reinforced shotcrete/gunite which can not only make the substance sturdier, but also much more fire resistant than other forms of shotcrete. At Thorcon Shotcrete and Shoring in Littleton, CO, we are always intrigued by new advances in shotcrete engineering and unique stories …