Specialty Items
This project won a first place award in the Cast-In-Place Special Finishes, Under 5000 Square Feet category of the Decorative Concrete Council Awards in 2014.
More details can be found on the Pott project by viewing the Concrete Construction June 2014 article.
We are proud that this project won the cover of August 2014 Durability + Design magazine.
Tom Ralston Concrete was asked to bid a public works project on the cliff directly above the surf breaks of First and Second Peaks at Pleasure Point on the East Side of Santa Cruz. The project is a terrace/amphitheater which incorporates beautifully colored concrete with sea shells and beach glass as well as fossils from the Monterey Bay that are thousands of years old. The main embed was a 5-million year old whale bone that was located in May of 2010 approximately 500 yards south of the project where the replica now rests. As the pictures will indicate, a polyurethane mold was made, a special concrete mix design was poured into the mold and then craftsmen from TRC acid stained the “bones”. A close up of the concrete bones looks incredibly realistic. TRC worked with Sean Monaghan of Santa Cruz Bronze Works on the project.