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The Concrete Sawing & Drilling Association proudly celebrated its 40th anniversary with celebrations at the World of Concrete and the CSDA 2012 Convention.
London architect David Chipperfield designed the new and improved St. Louis Art Museum by looking at concrete as a form of art and creating a new art piece almost entirely out of concrete.
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Spancrete announced the expansion of Spancrete Global Services, formerly Spancrete Machinery Corporation and the launch of Building Innovation.
This strong, lightweight anodized aluminum extrusion is fit with hydrophilic rubber gate seals and nylon fixing tabs.
The K760 Cut-n-Break deep-cutting power cutter cuts grooves for cabling, expansion joints, and crack repair.
890FTS-TXTR delivers the quality, wide color palette and ease of inventory management available with the 890FTS.
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Are joints in concrete meant to accommodate expansion or contraction? Someone told me that what I've always called expansion joints I should now call contraction joints. Does this mean that concrete doesn't expand? What are these joints actually supposed to do?
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The Challenge: Lay out all control joints, construction joints, and isolation joints to provide for shrinkage and eliminate the possibility of cracking.
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Q: We have a hospital expansion project and are considering polished concrete as the flooring material throughout. Our issue on this project is moisture (about 92% internal relative humidity after eight months), so the sheet vinyl originally installed has failed. I've been looking online for...
The complex bases for the cracks are resolved in this month's finale, which includes the key factor that changes speculation into reality.
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We have learned to live with drying shrinkage, one of the scourges of concrete, and have learned to accommodate it, compensate for it, control its magnitude, and dissipate stresses associated with it.
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Manhattan prosecutors have executed a search warrant at a company that supplies concrete to large public works projects in the city, marking a significant expansion of a 17-month investigation in the concrete testing industry that they say has exposed widespread fraud, according to court papers and...
T.Y. Lin International (TYLI) is pleased to announce the completion of the closure segment on the 760-foot main span of the Kanawha River Bridge, a new segmental bridge over the Kanawha River between Dunbar and South Charleston, West Virginia.
The rules for laying out contraction joints, also referred to as control joints, for decorative concrete are essentially the same as for any other concrete pavement. The only difference may be the decorative nature of the joints.
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Garmin International is a worldwide leader in the design, manufacturing, and marketing of navigation and communication products utilizing GPS technology. From a handful of employees in 1989, the organization has grown to more than 7000 associates worldwide. Growth of this magnitude has resulted in...
To more efficiently service their clients and to better-accommodate their growth, Kinnealey Meats bought an existing 100,000-square-foot industrial building in nearby Brockton, Mass. Company president John Kinnealey looked at the expansion as an opportunity to build a state-of-the-art processing...
When owner Prime Outlet Malls began planning the Williamsburg Prime Outlets Expansion in Williamsburg, Va., it sought a sustainable design that would meet the parking demands of a shopping facility while creating an eco-friendly solution for the space.
When owner Prime Outlet Malls began planning the Williamsburg Prime Outlets Expansion in Williamsburg, Va., it sought a sustainable design that would meet the parking demands of a shopping facility while creating an eco-friendly solution for the space.
Because of space limitations, some things were not included in 'Lesser Known Evils of the Concrete World'; (March 2008 issue). This column includes sources of some of the culprits and more on some of their behavioral problems. Part of our goal has been to make you comfortable and familiar with...
When it comes to choosing the “right tools for the job,” the prudent contractor does his homework before getting in over his head. Today, choosing tools incorrectly, or not including the needed tools in the bid for a project, can financially sink a contractor when repairs are needed because of poor...