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Two single-family homes recently built in Yellowstone National Park achieved LEED certification partly by using insulating concrete forms (ICFs).
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Achieving a LEED platinum rating, the highest level, for a home means doing everything feasible to make it energy efficient and sustainable. For the Gallo residence in Minneapolis, which the owners named 5ive, that included concrete sandwich panel walls.
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At Concrete Construction's first Industry Trends Roundtable in June 2002, the hot topic was moisture coming out of concrete floors and delaminating vinyl flooring, tile, and coatings.
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Is 2008 the low point or only the beginning?
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When even lower unit weight concrete is needed, or higher insulation value, cellular concrete is the solution.
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Whether you believe this will really kick-start the economy or not, there is some construction money coming for infrastructure work.
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Pervious concrete has great potential but its widespread adoption has lagged. Partly due to the natural caution of owners, engineers, and contractors to use what they consider an unproven technology, but also due to some failures.
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Concrete that flows into rebar-congested forms under its own weight, with no vibration and no segregation, is the dream of every contractor.
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Earlier this year, Concrete Construction had a conversation with four concrete contractors from across the United States to gauge the state of the industry today and where it appears to be going over the next year or so.
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Last year's CC100 report started with a quote from the National Association of Home Builders that a “dramatic downward correction in housing production still is underway.” Little did we know then that the drama was only just beginning.