[VIDEO] PROSOCO First Cut Enhances Productivity

Bruce Ferrell, concrete flooring technical specialist, explains how the foaming characteristic of First Cut reduces water usage and diamond tooling wear to improve the overall productivity of a project.

November 1, 2016

Bruce Ferrell, concrete flooring technical specialist, explains how the foaming characteristic of First Cut reduces water usage and diamond tooling wear to improve the overall productivity of a project.

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Top 10 Hottest Construction Stories This Week: New PPP Rules Pay the Smallest Businesses

Most-read construction stories include how to troubleshoot concrete cracks, 9-day continuous concrete pour slipforming grain silos, where surface transportation funding stands, six factors when adding drones to your construction business

This Week's 10 Hottest Construction Stories: New Rules Open PPP Payoff to the Smallest Businesses

Why the most-read construction stories include how to troubleshoot concrete cracks, 9-day continuous concrete pour slipforming grain silos, where surface transportation funding stands, six factors when adding drones to your construction business

5 Tips to Optimize Concrete Forming Panel Performance

5 Tips to Optimize Concrete Forming Panel Performance

APA-trademarked panels can be used repeatedly with proper care. Maximize concrete form lifetime—and your budget—with these five tips.

Tennant Decorative Stone Slurry System

Polished concrete slabs are popular in offices, residential, retail and big box stores, such as this Floor and Décor. The new ACI 310.1 specification available provides a guideline for normal industry practice.

Bringing Polished Concrete up to Spec

Explaining the new ACI Polished Concrete Slab Finishes Specifications. But first, why is a specification needed?

Examples of ravelling in concrete.

Why Does My Blade Dull When Cutting Concrete in the Cold?

Concrete doesn't act the same in cold temperatures - causing premature dulling and a potential waste of money. There's something you can do to be a bit more successful in cutting in the cold.

Mike Emma and Kurt Ziegler, kneeling on right, attended a skim coating class at the Decorative Concrete Institute four days after returning home from a tour of duty in Iraq.

Tactical Mission: Skim Coating

Bob Harris talks with two men who split their time between decorative concrete and the Us Army.

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The Dural 50 LM FS Solvent-Free Epoxy Coating

The Dural 50 LM FS Solvent-Free Epoxy Coating was designed to combat water-related damage and ensure optimal concrete protection and repair.

Dural Aquatight 100 Plus

The Dural Aquatight 100 Plus Solvent-Free Epoxy Coating

The Dural Aquatight 100 Plus Solvent-Free Epoxy Coating was designed to combat water-related damage and ensure optimal concrete protection and repair.

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Cutting Concrete in the Cold: Use the Right Blade

If you have ever run your blade dull way too quickly, you might be using the wrong blade for the job. Save money and use the right concrete saw blade for the season.

The number of options decorative concrete provides homeowners is a major factor in the annual valuation of the anticipated global decorative concrete market size. The market is estimated to reach more than $23.8 billion by 2026.

Polished & Stamped Concrete: Go-To Options for Decorative Concrete Contractors

A market analysis of the polished concrete and stamped concrete market - and why the numbers are looking UP

As a memorial to the frontline workers of COVID-19. The Ocoee Health-Center includes a plaque that reads as follows: 'This courtyard is dedicated to the frontline healthcare workers who went above and beyond during the 2020 COVID-19 pandemic. 'In appreciation for you extraordinary service, loyalty, and commitment to your profession and community.'' It then lists the companies and suppliers involved in the project and then a 'thank you.'

3 Decorative Concrete Contractors That Gave Back to Their Community

How three Bomanite-licensed decorative concrete contractors - Edwards Concrete Bomanite, Texas Bomanite, and Colorado Hardscapes - made a difference in their communities.

Click the image to open the image gallery and see the Blue and Orange pads.

The Ameripolish SmartFloor Maintenance System

PoreShield being applied to a bridge deck in Indiana, prior to its approval in Iowa.

PoreShield Concrete Sealant

PoreShield being applied to a bridge deck in Indiana, prior to its approval in Iowa.

Iowa DOT Approved Use of New Sealant to Improve Durability of Bridge Decks

The high-performance, sustainable and cost-effective concrete durability enhancer PoreShield extends service life of concrete five-to-nine times longer, protecting against water, salt and freeze/thaw damage.

5 Tips to Optimize Concrete Forming Panel Performance

5 Tips to Optimize Concrete Forming Panel Performance

APA-trademarked panels can be used repeatedly with proper care. Maximize concrete form lifetime—and your budget—with these five tips.

With headquarters in Aurora, IL and a second location in Mooresville, NC (pictured), Factory Cleaning Equipment provides facilities managers, building owners, and janitorial professionals with high-quality American-made industrial floor scrubbers and sweepers, including its own private-branded product line, Bulldog.

Jon-Don Expands Offerings with Factory Cleaning Equipment Inc. Acquisition

Jon-Don, national supplier of commercial supplies, equipment, and chemicals, announces expanded offerings within the jan-san, restoration equipment, and concrete surface prep and polishing industries

When removing wooden floors, contractors should use a scarifier equipped with a cutting blade to make cuts across the surface.

How Does It Come Off? Tips and Tricks for Hard Goods Flooring Removal

Hard goods such as wood, laminate flooring, ceramic tiles and quarry tiles are usually applied directly to a concrete floor using adhesives.

In high-racking warehouses, factories, and industrial facilities, floor flatness and levelness (FF/FL) can be a make-or-break issue, affecting the very performance of the building for its intended use.

Floor Flatness and Levelness in Modern Construction

Performing floor quality assurance in house, rather than outsourcing, can reduce project wait times.

The Kennedy Center Expansion Project

Winners of the ACI Annual Excellence in Concrete Construction Awards 2020

The winners of the ACI Annual Excellence in Concrete Construction Awards 2020. Entries for the 2021 Excellence in Concrete Construction Awards are now open and accepted through April 19, 2021.

The winner of the 2020 WOW! Award was Superior Gunite, of Lake View Terrace. The use of shotcrete allowed access for placement as well as the ability to carve the wet concrete to match the look of the previous precast panels.

The 2020 Decorative Concrete Award Winners

The winners of the Decorative Concrete Council's Decorative Concrete Awards competition were recognized at the American Society of Concrete Contractors Annual (virtual) Conference on September 24, 2020.

The biggest challenge with edge work on a polished floor is achieving the same depth of cut and overall look as the main part of the floor.

Don't Let Bad Edging Ruin a Good Polished Concrete Floor

Edging is the key to a winning polished concrete floor, but you need the right knowledge, the right tools and the right attitude to achieve success.

First Place Winners of the Hardscape Photo Contest

Appealing Plans in Project Photo Contest

Winners of the inaugural Hardscapes Photo Contest by Keystone Hardscapes.

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Research Says Self-healing Concrete Market Size Worth $305 Billion in 7 Years

A report by Grand View Research Inc. shows the global self-healing concrete market is expected to reach USD $305.38 billion by 2027.

The One South First (Domino Sugar) project was a 42-story commerical/residential building featuring punched window openings - demonstrating an important advancement in the use of 3D-printed forms.

The Winner of the PCI Sidney Freedman Craftsmanship Award

The Precast/Prestressed Concrete Institute announced the winner of the ninth annual Sidney Freedman Craftsmanship Award - The Gate Precast Company for Domino Sugar (New York City) project

When you mix high dosage levels of macro fibers in concrete, one of challenges is to achieve a good blending between concrete and fiber.

How High Dosage Levels of Macro Fibers Are Improving Concrete Slabs

Slab-on-grade floor and pavement panels shrink less and have almost no curl.

Brickform Refresh.

Brickform Refresh

Recolor and restore concrete with Brickform Refresh. Brickform Refresh is a solvent based penetrating, polysiloxane stain with excellent water repellency to be used for re-coloring and sealing exterior concrete surfaces.