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Lifting Equipment

Hydraulic Gantry Cuts Cost Replacing 107-year-old Rail Bridge Spans

Western Mechanical chose an Enerpac SBL1100 telescopic gantry over a crane to save downtime costs on an 8-week railroad bridge renovation

To prevent overloading the partly deconstructed, 100-year-old bridge, Western Mechanical laid gantry track system independent of the bridge itself, requiring a 79-ft.-long header beam.

Nuclear Power Station Records UK's Largest Concrete Pour

The concrete base for the power station's first reactor has been under construction for six months.

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It’s a Concrete World

Concrete Contractor welcomes new associate editor Amy Wunderlin.

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CFA Grand Project of the Year: A Lesson in Perseverance

Concrete Foundations Association (CFA)

Concrete Foundations Association announces its 2019 Grand Project of the Year.

The finished patio landscape wall with stone veneer sits at the edge of the water, sharing a stone and traditional footing for bearing.

North Carolina's Basnight Bridge Wins Award for Innovative Concrete Piles

Combination of jetting and driving to install precast, pre-stressed concrete piles was key to the project receiving the Deep Foundation Institute’s Outstanding Project Award.

Workers install piles for the new Basnight bridge in North Carolina.

Foxconn Begins Placement of Foundation for Wisconsin Plant

Production at its facility in scheduled to begin in the fourth quarter of 2020.

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Barton Malow Partners with Trimble on a Big, Hairy Growth Goal

‘We want a partner like us – who will adopt new technologies, push the envelope, thinks differently and is concerned with putting technology into the field’

Barton Malow continues to push its modeling technology into the field to give all stakeholders access to the sources of data that build their plans and help them perform better.

Wisconsin’s Foxconn Factory Calls for Precast Concrete Walls

The manufacturing facility was originally scheduled for completion by 2020.

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[VIDEO] NASA Testing Concrete for Constructing Moon Base

Researchers are analyzing results of experiments done aboard the International Space Station to understand the performance of cement-based concrete in microgravity

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ACI Adds Two Online Courses on Concrete Constructability Challenges

American Concrete Institute (ACI)

The on-demand courses cover information about concrete constructability issues in honor of Dr. Ward R. Malisch, a former senior managing director and an honorary member of ACI.

ASCC Issues Statement on Measuring Air Content in Non-Air-Entrained Concrete

American Society of Concrete Contractors (ASCC)

Position Statement No. 44 clarifies the concrete contractors’ point of view on the topic for architects, engineers, owners and others.

PCA Revives Industry Group in Support of Cement-Based Water Infrastructure

American Cement Association

Further guidance is needed to address the complex and expensive problems that plague U.S. water infrastructure, including dam maintenance and reliability.

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