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How to choose among your concrete pumping options.
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We Americans love our pavement. We drive 3 trillion miles a year on more than 4 million miles of U.S. roadways. Clearly we're a nation on the go and we expect our roads, streets, and highways to be available and ready whenever, and wherever, we are.
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First used on a large-scale commercial project in 1983, the F-number system for measuring floor flatness and levelness has been perhaps the most significant factor in enabling the construction of flatter and more level concrete floors.
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A new book published by the American Society of Concrete Contractors (ASCC) chronicles the current state of tolerances related to concrete construction.
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With so many factors affecting project development, the amount of construction work available is always growing or decreasing.
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A large part of Colin Milberg's project that began in 2007 is simply collecting design and as-built data on concrete construction projects—and then figuring out exactly what and how to measure.
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What is BIM, anyway? What most people in the construction world mean when they use this term these days is “building information modeling.”
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The ACI Tolerances committee spent a grueling three and a half hours in St. Louis on Nov. 4 working through 45 comments from the Technical Activities Committee (TAC) on revisions to ACI 117, Specification for Tolerances for Concrete Construction and Materials. The TAC review is one of the last...
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When you take an idea from the lab to the field, there always are hurdles to overcome. Even with the best of planning, the time comes for a reality check, and this fall Colin Milberg is again dealing with such an issue.
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Fundamental differences exist between flatwork made with pervious concrete and standard concrete. The surface texture differs noticeably, and when it comes to holding water, they're at opposite ends of the spectrum. But neither of those differences means that pervious can't be decorative.