Polished concrete is a major component of Port of Everett's facelift.
Marking its 20th consecutive year, the Tilt-Up Concrete Association, Mount Vernon, Iowa, recently announced the 2011 Tilt-Up Achievement Awards.
With the most votes this year, Chronic Taco is the 2010 Readers' Choice Decorative Project of the Year.
In Part 1 of our series on the importance of being able to read contract specifications, we look at reading blueprints.
Designed and owned by Australian retail property giant Westfield, a colossal new shopping and leisure complex opened to deafening fanfare in London last year.
The Tilt-Up Concrete Association (TCA), Mount Vernon, Iowa, recently announced the recipients of the 2010 Tilt-Up Achievement Awards.
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QUESTION: We have been asked to treat an interior concrete slab's surface inside a store. The concrete is about three years old, but the store is only now ready to open. The unheated shell was exposed to winter weather for two seasons. The design originally called for a stained concrete floor. This...
CityCenter, Las Vegas, open this past December, features hotels, casinos, and retail/entertainment space.
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The Tilt-Up Concrete Association (TCA) an international nonprofit organization that serves to expand and improve the use of Tilt-Up as the preferred construction method has announced the recipients of the 2010 Tilt-Up Achievement Awards.
For clothing designer/retailer Eileen Fisher, sustainability and authenticity were the winning combination.
In the arena of retail construction, time and creativity are equally paramount. Failure to meet a proposed deadline simply is not an option.
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The Tilt-Up Concrete Association (TCA) has announced the recipients of the 2009 Tilt-Up Achievement Awards.
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The construction of suspended slabs that exhibit superior flatness and levelness can't happen without vision, planning, and execution.
BIM techniques provide constant and immediate information on the project design, schedule, and cost that is reliable, integrated, and fully coordinated with the entire project team.
Javier Lopez and crew of X-cel Concrete Creations recently accepted the mission to bring back the luster of a 15,000-square-foot concrete floor at an organic grocery store in Southern California.
Polished concrete is a very viable flooring option for commercial and retail facilities, as well as schools and factories.
Today retail construction is installing colored concrete floors, replacing products such as vinyl tile, quarry tile, wood, and carpet.
Within the past six years, advancements in concrete construction have come about more quickly than for any other construction material.
Wal-Mart Stores Inc. has changed their construction specifications to require all interior steel-troweled concrete floors placed at Wal-Mart Stores, Supercenters, Neighborhood Markets, Sam's Clubs, and Distribution Centers to contain 15% to 20% fly ash by cement substitution.
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For big box retail stores, it's not only the levelness and flatness of a floor that counts, it's also the ability of a floor to reflect light that matters.