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For 14 years, JJ Juliano Construction has been installing large commercial and industrial floors in the state of New York. For the last 3 years, the company has been installing the floors much faster thanks to a laser-guided grader attachment for Bobcat skid-steer loaders.
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Unlike most insulating concrete forming systems, which sandwich cast-in-place concrete between interior and exterior layers of insulation, the Thermalwall building system uses 4-inch-thick extruded expanded polystyrene panels to form only the exterior of the concrete wall.
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In response to the severe shortage of skilled carpenters, form manufacturer Gates & Sons Inc., Denver, has developed a new product: precut, predrilled form components that can be assembled on the jobsite by relatively unskilled workers.
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The Insul-form Building System, developed in Canada, is an insulating concrete form system made up of large expanded-polystyrene panels each with an outer layer of oriented strand board (OSB).
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On a tilt-up concrete job involving the construction of a 550,000-square-foot office building and warehouse in Tilton, N.H., contractor Clayco Construction, St. Louis, was required to place the tilt-up wall panels during the coldest time of year—November through January.
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Though built near Chicago, where temperatures can plummet below zero in the winter and exceed 100° F in the summer, the 430,000-square-foot warehouse of Roman Inc. has no heating or air conditioning units. Yet the temperature in the warehouse stays about 70° F year round.
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A mason from Maine has built a concrete retaining wall that appears to be made of hand-laid stone around his home.
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Pavement sawing contractor Rick Younger invented a patented device for grooving and grinding concrete pavement. It consists of replaceable straps mounted on a rotating drum with a metal inner core. A hard rubber sleeve covering the drum absorbs shocks, jarring and vibration. The straps are mounted...
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To build new stores quickly and meet its expansion goals in the northern United States, The Home Depot needed an alternative construction method for building well-insulated retail outlets in colder climates. When the company built a new 112,000-square-foot store in Walker, Mich., in 1997, it meet...
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Bridge decks need joints. Without them, decks are vulnerable to thermal stresses that will induce cracking and, ultimately, failure. But if the seals fail, the joints give water, deicing chemicals and debris a path to attack the underlying structure.