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An early start on concrete curing can provide many benefits, especially for hot-weather placements. It can help to prevent stickiness, sponginess and surface crusting conditions that can cause finishing problems. It can also eliminate plastic shrinkage cracking and reduce drying shrinkage cracking...
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If you're a concrete contractor, it's important that you maintain adequate clear cover in vertical concrete structures. With proper cover, reinforced-concrete structures are likely to exhibit improved structural integrity and finished appearance as well as greater resistance to fire and corrosion...
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Because federally funded construction projects are now required to be designed in metric units and built with metric materials, mills are reducing and will eventually eliminate their output of inch-pound bars and produce soft metric bars instead. Fortunately, the use of soft metric rebar will not...
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From the street, it appears that the glass facade of the new Rio Suites Hotel, Las Vegas, wraps around the curved building like smooth cellophane. But the "curved" edge of each floor slab actually is segmented to fit the flat panes of glass. Had just one of these segments on a single floor been...