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Benefits of Precast Concrete
  • Control and Quality
    Precast concrete products are produced in a controlled environment, providing high quality and uniformity. Variables aftecting the quality of end products e.g. temprature, humidity, craftmanship - can be nearly eliminatined.
  • Sustainibility
  • Economy
    Due to repetative proccess of precast concrete, almost no initial cost and a low maintance cost along with the longetivity of precast stucutres and their resistance to both everyday and extrem events 
  • Design Flexibility
    Unlike Steel Construction and cast-in-place concrete, architectural precast concrete offers limitless potential for the development and manipulation of massing, form, color, texture and details. 

Benefits of Precast Concrete

Welcome to Lowe Precast, Inc.

Precast concrete products are produced in a controlled environment, providing high quality and uniformity. Variables affecting the quality of end products e.g. temperature, humidity, craftsmanship - can be nearly eliminated.


Designer's Knowledge Bank Welcome to the Precast/Prestressed Concrete Institute (PCI), headquartered in Chicago, Illinois, with membership throughout the world. PCI, an organization dedicated to fostering greater understanding and use of precast and prestressed concrete, maintains a full staff of technical and marketing specialists.

PCMA Members are the leading producers of Precast/Prestressed Concrete in Texas. Historically Underutilized Businesses

Lowe Precast, Inc  is a leading precast company located at the heart of Texas - Waco, Texas, providing architectural and structural products to all major markets in Texas from Dallas to Corpus Christi and from Galveston to Lubbock.

Lowe Precast, Inc is a PCI (Precast/Prestressed Concrete Institute) certified precast plant in architectural and structural categories to satisfy a wide variety of client needs with better quality. This flexibility, along with an in-house engineering staff, provides one stop shopping for the design, engineering, production and erection of precast structures; thereby improving communication and coordination with owners and general contractors.

Location:

Austin, TX

Owner:

University of Texas System

Architect:

HEERY International

Contractor:

Hensel Phelps Construction Company

Work began in late April/early May 2009 with the building of a new Football Academic Center, a new Hall of Fame, and the addition of 4,525 permanent bleacher seats that would replace the 4,000 temporary bleacher seats. It was also announced that this upgrade would raise the home attendance to more than 100,000 Funding for this project cost approximately $27 million dollars and also included money to change from natural to artificial grass. In May 2009, the university began the process of replacing the stadium's natural grass playing surface with FieldTurf and finished in June 2009.