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Paving: Non-Parking Lot Award: Racetrack Construction a “Flat Out” Winner

Racetrack paving gives Sunland Asphalt & Construction Pavement Magazine Award

To complete this project, Sunland utilized three pavers, three material transfer vehicles, 20 rollers, 50 dump trucks and a crew of 47 Sunland employee owners running continuously.

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Crafco Inc.

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ACI Honors Recipients of Certification, Construction Awards

American Concrete Institute (ACI)

The ACI Certification Award and the ACI Construction Award recognize leaders in the industry.

Multiquip Hydrostatic 6-Foot Ride-on Trowel

The compact model was designed using concepts from larger ride-on trowels.

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80,000 cu. yd. of Concrete Needed for Three-Tower Complex in Atlanta

West Peachtree complex stands over a mass-transit station, requiring foundation girders mass poured in 8,000 psi concrete chilled with liquid nitrogen below 58 deg F

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Researchers Create Living Concrete as Strong as Cement-Based Mortar

Using photosynthetic cyanobacteria, scientists have created a new building material that is not only alive but can also reproduce.

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Concrete Vibrators

Good Vibration is Key to Quality Concrete

KB Engineering LLC

Proper use of an internal vibrator will minimize surface defects and blemishes

Best practice includes a form watcher measuring wall form deflections associated with concrete pressures due to the height of concrete and vibration. Not only a safety issue but monitoring form deflections can avoid out-of-tolerance walls.

Most Read Construction Articles in 2019

Over the course of 2019 the ForConstructionPros.com audience was interested in tips and how-to articles to help them improve work and operations while on the jobsite.

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Doka’s Paratop Bridge Overhang System Solves Challenges for Wekiva River Bridge

Safety, schedule, access and cost requirements meant hand assembly and disassembly of bridge deck support could not be done on the Wekiva River Bridge project; the Doka system solved the problem

Doka's ParaTop Bridge Overhang formwork is a system that can be used for precast concrete and steel-composite bridges.

Decorative Concrete

Concrete Influences A Model of Sustainable Design

The Confluence Park project looked to nature for inspiration, using custom pavers to represent the flow of two merging waterways and 29-ft. concrete ‘petals’ to form pavilions.

The centerpiece of the Confluence Park Project is the central pavilion made up of 22 concrete “petals” that arch together to form a network of vaults.

Concrete Repair

MCI-2020 Gel Offers Deep-Reaching Solution for Corroding Rebar

Cortec Corporation

Cortec’s MCI-2020 Gel is designed to work when proper surface preparation cannot be achieved or is economically undesirable.

MCI-2020 Rebar Corrosion Protection

Concrete Technology

SmartRock Concrete Sensors Prove Concrete Strength in Cold Weather

Giatec Scientific Inc.

Concrete maturity testing software helps Bottorff Construction stay off the deficiency list on a multifamily project where third-party inspections didn’t collect the full data.

Bottorff Construction Inc. used Giatec SmartRock sensors in concrete placed under the same conditions as previous concrete that was ruled deficient. The sensors showed that the concrete was not deficient and that the sensors produce more accurate data than what was used by the agency.

ACI Foundation Partners to Launch Embodied Carbon in Construction Calculator

The calculator provides the building community a tool to compare and reduce embodied carbon emissions from construction materials.

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