A good portion of concrete contractors offer cast-in-place concrete work in their lineup of services, whether they're building foundations, single-family homes or commercial buildings. Contractors are ...
Pre-cast concrete foundation systems are a new construction feature in homebuilding. Unlike a poured concrete foundation, which requires a separate pour for concrete footings and can mean weeks before ...
Three new surface finishes for as-cast formed concrete are defined in the new ACI 301-10 Specifications for Structural Concrete, which supersedes ACI 301-05. Rough-Form and Smooth-Form As-Cast ...
Q. Hello, Tim. I was doing research about house foundations and came across interlocking foam forms that stack on top of one another. They assemble much like children’s plastic blocks. Does a concrete ...
On the lookout for ever more energy-efficient building envelope solutions, a growing number of Building Teams are turning to insulating concrete forms as an alternative to light-gauge steel frame, ...
Q: I was doing research about house foundations and came across interlocking foam forms that stack on top of one another. They assemble much like children's plastic blocks. Does a concrete foundation ...
On paper, an exhibition about concrete doesn’t sound all that enticing, and that was a big part of the challenge for Architecture and Design Scotland. That and reaching such a wide audience. The whole ...
At its nuclear fission technology demonstration facility, one of Kairos Power’s goals is to accelerate nuclear plant construction. In a first project with Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL), Kairos ...
Wieser Concrete workers wire up reinforcing steel bars which will be used to create a pre-cast arch shape for a bridge construction job. In their large Roxana buidling, Wieser Concrete sets forms ...
Step inside Sudnya Shroff’s cast-concrete home in Los Altos Hills, Calif., and you will find glossy kitchen countertops, also made of concrete, sculptural bathroom sinks and staircases—concrete—and ...
Q: Hello, Tim. I was doing research about house foundations and came across interlocking foam forms that stack on top of one another. They assemble much like children’s plastic blocks. Does a concrete ...