Various shoring products were used to construct the World Trade Center's Tower 4.
A survey of the Oklahoma City section of I-44 proved to the Oklahoma Department of Transportation (ODOT) that it was in desperate need of repair. Their solution: concrete pavement restoration (CPR).
The Arena Stage renovation project in Washington, D.C., presented Clark Concrete Contractors, Bethesda, Md., with unusual challenges: In addition to renovating two theaters and constructing a new elliptically shaped theater that involved complex concrete designs, the company had to consider...
The Brightman Street Bridge had endured 100 years of use and abuse. Serving the city of Fall River, Mass., it is a vital link for residents traveling across the Taunton River to neighboring areas.
Three hotel projects around the country are using formwork.
Washington University, a mid-sized university in St. Louis, Mo., is building a new six-story parking garage to ease parking for its 13,300 students and 3000 staff members.
Shepler's, a major formwork supplier in Texas, was looking to improve its performance in the small hand-set formwork market, but the sales staff was unable to bid small jobs due to the increased sophistication of the market.
After years of planning, construction of a prominent building in Russia has begun.
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Danny Epp and his two sons, Ryan and Brandon, recently formed and poured the footings for their new home in Tsawwassen, B.C., Canada, using the Fastfoot forming membrane. The building site was excavated on two separate levels to minimize excavation costs on a steep slope. The plan was to build the...
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Many industrial and commercial concrete floors are not protected. As a result they can suffer irreparable damage from many sources.
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The Giusti Group, Calgary, constructed concrete foundations, columns, and floors for a six-story concrete and steel condominium project in Kelowna, B.C.
The problem is as old as concrete pumping itself: jobsite damage caused by the weight and movement of the pump hose. “Just about everyone in the concrete business has battle scars from a pour that went bad because of line pump hose damage,” says Tim Mulligan, owner of Roseville Concrete Pumping in...
Several recent projects display how MEVA's KLK climbing system and Imperial (inch-foot) sized forms contribute to efficient concrete construction.
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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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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...