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The new WOC Qualified Concrete Placement and Consolidation Worker seminar will prepare participants to become a WOC Qualified Concrete Placement and Consolidation Worker.
Although the leaves are changing colors in Pittsburgh this fall, ACI will keep things green. The ACI's fall convention, “Green Concrete in the Steel City,” takes place Oct. 24–28 in Pittsburgh's Westin Convention Center Hotel and David L. Lawrence Convention Center.
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Building information modeling (BIM) is a buzzword in the AEC industry, but is it hype or substantive? First, one must understand that BIM is not just 3-D.
Later this month, the first of a number of concrete construction trade shows are scheduled to commence in the effort to help you stay competitive and knowledgeable in this ever-changing industry. Here are just a few of the critical shows relevant to the concrete contractor you won't want to miss.
Building homes with abovegrade concrete walls is one of the fastest-growing methods of residential construction in the United States. Barely on the radar in the early 1990s, concrete homes now command an estimated 15% of the abovegrade single-family residential market as of 2006. Some of the...
The Oaklyn branch of the Vanderburgh Public Library in Evansville, Ind., not only creates a prairie blending into the landscape, it is a prime example of environmental stewardship.
News briefs from the residential concrete scene.
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Commissioned in 1965, designed between 1966 and 1968 and completed in late 1971, the Phillips Exeter Academy Library has received the 1997 American Institute of Architects' 25-year award. Renowned architect Louis I. Kahn designed the structure's dramatic architectural-concrete interior. The inner...
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Our company does commercial work that often requires us to construct bollards, which are simply 4- or 6-inch-diameter steel pipes filled with concrete.
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