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Boral's U.S. division saw earnings before interest and taxes (EBIT) fall 9% in the first half of its fiscal year 2012 to a loss of A$51 million (US$55 million) from the year-ago period.
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Speakers have been selected for the National Ready Mixed Concrete Association’s 7th annual International Concrete Sustainability Conference to be held May 7-10 in Seattle.
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Does high fly ash concrete provide the same passivating protection as portland cement?
Two days after Tom Adams accepted the job as the executive director of the American Coal Ash Association (ACAA), the Kingston, Tenn., coal ash storage facility failed. “We were in crisis mode from day one,” he says.
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CC selects five people each year to recognize for helping to make advances in the concrete industry.
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The U.S. House of Representatives passed legislation designed to protect coal ash recycling and strengthen coal ash disposal regulations without a "hazardous waste" designation for the material.
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The ACAA is trying to get the message to the president that coal ash should not be regulated as a hazardous waste and you can help.
Social media, handling joint deflection, fly ash concrete, and concrete cloth are just a few industry innovations.
One reader clarifies the current views surround fly ash and possible EPA regulation.
The article defines the issues for good, sustainable floor construction.
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The rhetoric has been hot at the EPA's public hearings for a new proposed rule restricting fly ash disposal.
On Sept. 18th, American Concrete Institute (ACI) President Richard D. Stehly passed away following a sudden illness. Stehly was the principal of American Engineering Testing, Inc., based in Minneapolis, Minn. A member of ACI since 1980, he was a licensed civil engineer in Minnesota and Wisconsin.
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The concrete industry's Strategic Development Council's (SDC) upcoming Session #28 meeting is this fall. The meeting will be held in Plymouth, Mich., at St. John's Hotel, Golf, and Conference Center on Oct. 7–8 2010.
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Concrete is the most used building material in the world, but unfortunately it also leaves a major carbon dioxide footprint because of one of its main binders.
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Today, due to cost advantages, the sustainability movement, past research and development, and successful applications, fly ash fills ready-mix plant silos, is used in blended cements, and is included in many mix designs.
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The market interest in sustainability has quickly progressed from fledgling to noticeable to overwhelming. Architects are finding that post-tensioned concrete offers many advantages in achieving green building targets for high-rise multifamily housing projects.
CityCenter, Las Vegas, open this past December, features hotels, casinos, and retail/entertainment space.
Located about 1500 ft. downstream of the Hooover Dam, the nearly complete Colorado River Bridge will connect the Nevada and Arizona sides of the new highway that will bypass the dam, and offer a magnificent view of the Dam and Lake Mead.
The long-term consequences of a December 2008 accident at a Tennessee Valley Authority (TVA) electric generating plant in Kingston, Tenn., could change the way fly ash is used or disposed of in the United States for the foreseeable future.
Acid stain technology is at least 120 years old, exceeded only by integral color as a concrete coloring medium.