Concrete pumped to new U.S. record 729' 12/30/1979
Concrete pumping in the United States took a sizable leap upward recently when the general contracting joint venture of Mi n e r- Tu rner pumped concrete 729 feet’* vertically to place the last of 50 floors in the Capital National Bank Plaza in Houston. The record- breaking level of concrete pumped surpassed the previous U.S. record of 576 feet,2 established during construction of the Century Plaza in Los Angeles.