CIM Students build monument to Fire Fighters who died on 9/11
CIM students to work with New York Fire Station to Create 9/11 memorial at World of Concrete Artistry Event.
 
Concrete Industry Management students will be working during the annual World of Concrete Artistry event to create a memorial to the fallen firefighters of the firehouse located at 48th & 8th Streets in New York City. On September 11, 2001, this firehouse lost two Companies including the men and women on duty for Ladder 4, Engine 54 & Battalion 9.
 
Ed Gruetzner, a firefighter who had retired from FDNY four months before 9/11, lost many friends on that day. Several months ago, Ed, now an accomplished decorative concrete installer living in White Plains, NY, approached Mike Eastergard of PreiTech to discuss the idea of creating a concrete memorial for the firehouse. Mike immediately volunteered his custom concrete form expertise and suggested that they work with CIM students to create the memorial during the 2010 WOC Artistry event. Industry experts and companies have without hesitation volunteered additional expertise, materials, and equipment for this project.
 
The idea was quickly embraced by the CIM programs at Chico State and Middle Tennessee State University. A simple, evocative design was agreed upon -  two simple vertical forms representing the silhouette of the twin towers that will reflect light on a faceted surface ghosted with the names of the fallen firefighters. Students at each university will work with the concrete mix and create sample panels prior to arriving in Las Vegas to work on the project. Once in Las Vegas, the students will do all of the work on the project, including forming, mixing and placing the concrete, erecting the completed panels, dismantling the memorial at the end of the event, and carefully crating it in specially designed foam forms for shipment to New York courtesy of Freeman. Mike, Ed, faculty from both schools, and many others from the decorative concrete industry and Hanley Wood will be on hand to advise, but agree that the students are the leaders responsible for making the memorial a reality.
 
The team invites WOC attendees to participate in honoring the Captain of the firehouse in North Hall, room N263 on Thursday, February 4, at 11:25 a.m. After the auction, the group will walk to the Artistry location and convene for a presentation of the completed memorial at 3 p.m.
 
Please join us in the Artistry area on Thursday at 3 p.m. and any time during the week to be a part of this humble event saying thank you to the brave men and women who serve to protect us all.

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