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They look dull and, in fact, if you've seen one concrete masonry unit— or concrete block or CMU—you may think you've seen the lot of them: Usually they're rough, gray oblong blocks formed from water, sand, crushed stone, and cement, with two big holes in them.

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Structurflex LLC
(816) 889-9000
140 Walnut St., Ste. 201
Kansas City, MO

McCownGordon Construction, LLC
(816) 960-1111
422 Admiral Blvd.
Kansas City, MO

Midwest Block and Brick, Inc.
(816) 241-5197
4101 E. 12th Terr.
Kansas City, MO

Key Construction Missouri, LLC
(816) 221-7171
1811 Baltimore
Kansas City, MO

Syska Hennessy Group
(816) 448-3124
2300 Main St., Ste. 900
Kansas City, MO

Red Streak Corporation
(816) 471-6979
1627 Main St., Ste. 901
Kansas City, MO

ARC Construction
(816) 454-4272
2300 Main St 9th Floor
Kansas City, MO

Geo. P. Reintjes Co., Inc.
(816) 756-2150
P.O. Box 410856
Kansas City, MO

Habitat Restore
(816) 231-6889
4701 Deramus
Kansas City, MO

Clarkson Construction Company
(816) 483-8800
4133 Gardner Ave.
Kansas City, MO

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Source: ARCHITECT Magazine
Publication date: March 1, 2008

By Bradford Mckee

Yet concrete blocks are the potatoes of common architecture—sort of ugly and endlessly useful. They're laid and stacked in bonds like bricks from the lowest basements to the highest floors of a building, as foundations, inner and outer walls, mechanical core linings, and, not least, the main line of safety around fire stairs. Even without a fire, they protect us more than we appreciate. Architects and contractors rely on concrete blocks—8 billion of them produced in North America in 2007 alone—for their compressive muscle. Blocks can carry weight like other, more plastic incarnations of concrete, often with steel rebar and poured concrete inside the cavities. But, given their déclassé look, as often as not they're hidden like underwear behind brick veneers, ceramic tiles, modular panels, or exterior finishing systems. Or they're simply glazed or slapped with coats of paint.

Concrete block's value lies in its versatility—certainly not in portability. Because concrete is heavy, it is generally made close to where it is used.

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