Wal-Mart Stores Inc. has changed their construction specifications to require all interior steel-troweled concrete floors placed at Wal-Mart Stores, Supercenters, Neighborhood Markets, Sam's Clubs, and Distribution Centers to contain 15% to 20% fly ash by cement substitution.
In Part 1 of our series on the importance of being able to read contract specifications, we look at reading blueprints.
While at WOC, you might like to visit some of the significant concrete projects in Vegas.
With the most votes this year, Chronic Taco is the 2010 Readers' Choice Decorative Project of the Year.
Polished concrete is a major component of Port of Everett's facelift.
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QUESTION: We have been asked to treat an interior concrete slab's surface inside a store. The concrete is about three years old, but the store is only now ready to open. The unheated shell was exposed to winter weather for two seasons. The design originally called for a stained concrete floor. This...
Designed and owned by Australian retail property giant Westfield, a colossal new shopping and leisure complex opened to deafening fanfare in London last year.
With high corrosion resistance, minimum maintenance requirements, and good economy, copper laminate flashing is ideal for all commercial projects.
Polished concrete is a very viable flooring option for commercial and retail facilities, as well as schools and factories.
The number of big box retail outlets is expanding, and so is the amount the retailers spend on coating their exposed concrete floors.
The Stratosphere Las Vegas Tower is the tallest freestanding observation tower in the United States, soaring 1149 feet above the ground.
Within the past six years, advancements in concrete construction have come about more quickly than for any other construction material.
In 2002, a few contractors aggressively marketed the concept of diamond polished floors, but after five years of growth, how has the industry changed in terms of tools, procedures and the market for polished concrete floors?
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The construction of suspended slabs that exhibit superior flatness and levelness can't happen without vision, planning, and execution.
The Palazzo Resort, at the time of its completion in 2008, was the world’s largest LEED-certified building.
Javier Lopez and crew of X-cel Concrete Creations recently accepted the mission to bring back the luster of a 15,000-square-foot concrete floor at an organic grocery store in Southern California.
At 68 stories tall, the new Fontainebleau Las Vegas hotel and casino ranks with the tallest buildings on the Las Vegas strip. The hotel is a structural concrete construction in a city that loves concrete.
The selections here demonstrate how decorative concrete in public spaces and the commercial sector continues to grow and mature. Whether in schools, churches, retail spaces, theaters, grocery stores, and corporate headquarters or along beachfronts, the following projects demonstrate decorative...
The Wacker Neuson Technical Academy will hold it's second prep course for the ACI Specialty Commercial/Industrial Concrete Floor Finishers certification.
The Harley-Davidson Museum features a diamond-polished floor with understated sheens and no gloss finishes.