The article describes the different types on the market, their advantages, and how to install them.
A new pozzolanic cement when used to make concrete can resist attack in acidic or alkaline environments and also withstand higher temperatures than portland cement concrete.
Find out the results of CC's two-year warehouse floor study.
Speed, durability, and sustainability are some of UV curing's benefits.
The Atlanta Bonded Warehouse Corp. (ABW), Kennesaw, Ga., has always tried to improve its facilities and operations with each new warehouse or expansion.
The British Columbia Institute of Technology (BCIT) trains workers in aircraft and airport maintenance, engineering, and flight operations. When the institute in Burnaby, B.C., opened a new hangar recently, it had a much more down-to-earth dilemma to tackle.
Placing mass concrete—which is defined for practical purposes as concrete formed with a minimum dimension of 3 feet—presents challenges in any type of construction.
Mark Peters, deputy to the associate laboratory director at Argonne National Laboratory, says the public has three concerns about nuclear reactors: they must be safe from extreme forces of nature, they must not leak radiation and highly radioactive spent fuels must be recycled, not stored.
Total stations and robotic total stations were once tools for surveyors only, but manufacturers are not making them contractor friendly. As a result, more contractors are beginning to see the value in using total station technology.
Serviceability is the name of the game with floor slabs that will have lift truck traffic. The most vulnerable places on such a floor slab are the joints. The joints break down when a lift truck moves toward the joint, deflecting down the edge of the slab panel it is on, then bumping against the...
In the twenty years since the founding of the TCA, tilt-up construction has made monumental gains.
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Egypt today has much poverty, and its population is crowded into a narrow strip adjacent to the Nile, with the remaining 95% of the country a vast desert. As the population increases, the small amount of arable land near the river is being converted to living space, a conundrum that makes it...
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Ed Finkel of Edward B. Finkel Associates of Berkley Heights, N.J. and Gary Herron, technical services director for Redi-Mix, LP, of Carrollton, Texas, explain how they were able to work together with a stringent specification for aggregate grading and minimum water content.
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When Eaton Steel Corp., Taylor, Mich., decided to modernize existing warehouse storage, the company needed a heavy-duty superflat concrete floor with no transverse joints and minimal cracking. Transverse joints were undesirable because they would create bumps in the wheel paths of the warehouse's...
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Building a 243,000-square-foot reinforced concrete warehouse floor to meet specified pour widths of 56 feet and floor flatness and levelness requirements of FF35 and FL25 is a challenge for any concrete contractor. Meidling Concrete Inc. had to build such a floor for a Shopko Stores Inc...
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The Channel Tunnel rail link between Britain and France is getting its shape and finish from reinforced concrete. Most of the concrete is in the form of precast reinforced segments. The curved segments are lifted and erected against the tunnel walls as the boring machines advance. Two casting...
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Most tilt-up contractors face the problem of casting wall panels with a total area that exceeds the footprint (ground floor area) of the building. For a four-story warehouse near Seattle, the available footprint was less than half the total square footage of the walls. Still, the architect chose...
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To lift 2000-pound loads 45 feet high in narrow warehouse aisles, high-rise lifts or turret trucks weighing nearly 20,000 pounds require extremely flat floors.
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Precasting is often thought of as a factory operation but many contractors today have staffs with sufficient ability and experience to do good precasting work themselves.
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