One entire floor of a parking structure was demolished and replaced with a new post-tensioned deck.
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The Post-Tensioning Institute has announced a new specification update approved by the PTI Board of Directors and the Technical Advisory Board.
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The Post-Tensioning Institute announced the 2011 PTI Fellows, and Technical Advisory Board (TAB) Award recipients, Tues., May 3, during the 2011 awards program.
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The Post-Tensioning Institute’s 10th annual Technical Conference and Exhibition will be held on May 1-3, 2011 in Kansas City, MO.
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The Post-Tensioning Institute has announced new 2011 Officers and additions to the Board of Directors.
The eight-level, 6000-car parking structure spans approximately 270x1024 feet, enclosing about 2.3 million square feet.
The Atlanta Bonded Warehouse Corp. (ABW), Kennesaw, Ga., has always tried to improve its facilities and operations with each new warehouse or expansion.
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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.
With the proper knowledge of structural behavior, repair hardware, and post-tensioned field practices, retrofitting openings and other penetrations in PT slabs is not only feasible, but achievable safely and economically.
The U.S. Green Building Council's (USGBC) LEED program rates buildings in a number of environmental categories, awarding points for energy and water conservation; use of sustainable resources; and building occupant comfort. But the incorporation of structural efficiency, which can help owners and...
New Orleans is currently the fastest-growing city in the U.S., partly due to the work of the Army Corps of Engineers.
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The Post-Tensioning Institute (PTI) announced the 2009 Legends of Post-Tensioning, PTI Fellows, and Technical Advisory Board Award recipients Monday, May 4, at the Legends of Post-Tensioning Awards Program.
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The concrete pavement project, located on Interstate Highway 35 in Hillsboro, in the Waco District of the Texas Department of Transportation (TxDOT), involved the construction of a 9-inch post-tensioned concrete pavement (PTCP) and a 14-inch conventional continuously reinforced concrete pavement...
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The Post-Tensioning Institute (PTI) has announced the content for their 2009 Conference & Exhibition.
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The Post-Tensioning Institute (PTI), a nonprofit organization for the advancement of post-tensioned concrete design and construction, has announced the dates for their popular Level One Field Fundamentals of Unbonded Tendons as well as Level Two Inspector Training and Certification of Field...
Post-tensioned concrete is a term heard more and more in the construction industry today.
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Frank Lloyd Wright designed this house in 1950 but construction didn't start until 2004; 54 years later.
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VSL, a nationwide specialty-construction company focusing on the design, manufacture, and installation of concrete reinforcement systems, recently received five awards from the Post-Tensioning Institute (PTI).
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Building the St. Anthony Falls bridge fast, high quality, and safe.
You wouldn't know it just by driving by any of the jobsites, but these days Southern Florida is a hotbed of laser scanning for high-rise construction.