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Concrete
Polished Concrete Plus Creates Wood Grain Finishes
When placing concrete began to take its toll on Jeff Kasella’s body, he found a way to add beauty to the slabs others placed.
Homeowners who build on concrete slabs can now achieve the look of wood thanks to Kasella's artistry. Grain design for each plank is applied by hand.
Concrete
Bid to Punchlist: Managing the Concrete Slab Package
Structural Services Inc.
Defining the RFP with a clear vision of the scope of work, job site conditions and work restrictions will go far in minimizing confusion and potential conflict.
Construction Management
Concrete Polishers
The Gestation of a Polished Concrete Project
The Moscone Center improvements, specifically to the polished concrete scope, is a lesson to specifications that don’t always meet expectations but how communication between parties can drive the project in a successful direction for all parties.
The Moscone Center improvements, specifically with regard to the polished concrete scope, in San Francisco, California is a lesson to specifications that don’t always meet owner expectations and how a great general contractor, great architect, and an experienced concrete subcontractor can communicate and come together to drive the project in a successful direction for all parties.
Concrete
Concrete Slump Should Not Be Specified
American Society of Concrete Contractors (ASCC)
The concrete producer and contractor should determine slump requirements.
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Power Trowels
Avoid Surface Defects on Exterior Slabs
Twining Inc.
The proper finishing techniques will help you avoid defects like premature wear, scaling, mortar flaking and plastic-shrinkage cracking.
Scaling, above, and premature surface wear typically occur when contractors mix bleedwater into the surface or trap bleedwater and air directly beneath the surface.
Concrete Technology
The How's and Why's of Concrete Curing
Twining Inc.
Discover ways concrete petrographers evaluate how well (or not) curing operations are done in concrete construction.
Photograph of polished surface from a concrete core removed from a poorly cured slab on ground showing layer of dark paste at the top of the core. Scale in millimeters. The loss of material at the top is due to poor hydration.
Concrete Equipment & Products
Self-Leveling Topping Corrects Concrete Floor Overpour on Polishing Job
Husqvarna Construction Products
CTS Cement's Rapid Set TRU Self-Leveling topping helped a contractor bring an overpoured concrete floor back to specification in order to achieve the desired polished-concrete surface
In order to achieve the desired polished concrete finish on this lobby floor, Concrete Flooring Solutions used CTS Cement Rapid Set TRU Self-Leveling product to bring an overpoured floor back to its specified recessed depth.
Concrete
Tips to Control Crack Width in Concrete Slab on Ground
KB Engineering LLC
Ten tips when using reinforcement to provide crack width control in nonstructural slabs-on-ground
When slabs are placed on problematic subbases with risks of non-uniform support or consist of moderate to high shrinkage concrete or joint spacings exceed 15 ft., then reinforcement is necessary to limit widths of cracks should they occur.
Business
Top 10 Most-Read Construction Stories the Week of July 20
World of Concrete preview, most-common OSHA violations, taxpayer support for raising gas taxes, new best practice for radar scanning concrete slabs, COVID-19 outbreak among SoFi Stadium construction workers
Pastor Josh Moore assists Roy Mathis of GranQuartz polishing the Ameripolish Smartfloor process.
Concrete
CSDA Announces New Best Practice for Operating in GPR Scanned Concrete Slabs
Concrete Sawing & Drilling Association (CSDA)
The new best practice, CSDA-BP-026 Operating in GPR Scanned Slabs, was developed with input from GPR contractors, manufacturers, concrete cutting contractors and specifiers.
GPR concrete
Decorative Concrete
Things to Consider When Choosing a Concrete Overlay
When considering if an overlay is right for your client it's important to paint wide strokes of possibilities, but root expectations in the complexities of the install.
CTS Rapid Set TRU Self-Leveling Overlay is a hydraulic cement-based, self-leveling topping, re-surfacer and underlayment for both indoor and outdoor jobsites. The product cures to a light off-white color. It is ideal for floors that are stained, integrally colored, and those with decorative embedded aggregate flooring.
Concrete
MAX USA TwinTier RB401T-E
MAX USA Corp.
The TwinTier RB401T-E. The RB401T-E is designed to reduce back strain when tying rebar for concrete slabs.
Max USA RB401T-E
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