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Concrete
Advanced Decorative Concrete Staining
Mastering the art of decorative concrete staining is a unique, valuable, and profitable skill. If you already know how to transform a dull gray slab into a beautiful, highly polished surface, this hands-on two-day course will teach you how to take things to the next level and create a masterpiece!
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Concrete Polishers
Opportunity Knocks with Maintenance Services
Pictured here is a concrete floor prior to being cleaned.
Decorative Concrete
A Passion for Polished Concrete
Perfect CC Midwest was hired to complete a full stone exposure polished concrete floor at Clarke Environmental, a global environmental products and services company.
Concrete Equipment & Products
15 Ways to Pour Concrete Slabs in Cold Weather Tested
A contractor and team of manufacturers tested 15 different methods and mixes for pouring concrete slabs at cold temperatures side by side. Here's what they found.
Purinton Pics Cold Weather T 11610427
Business
How Full-Depth Reclamation Saves Parking Lots
Depending on job size several facets of the full-depth reclamation process can take place simultaneously as happened at a Lockheed Martin parking lot where mixing, grading and compaction are getting done.
Rental
Video: Tornado Tears Through Rental Yard in Byron Center, MI
In the footage from 10:22 pm Sunday, July 13, you can see the wind rotating and blowing across the parking lot. Several pieces of heavy equipment were blown over.
Torndao
Personnel Management
Does Your Field Time Card Work For You?
Construction Business Coaching
Designed properly, your time card can become an invaluable tool to track labor production, field quantities installed, company and rental equipment usage, and materials consumed on the job
Figure 1: This example time card shows the work broken down exactly as the estimator bid the job.
Concrete
Commercial Gallery Constructed with Variety of Tilt-up Concrete Panel Forms
A combination of tilt-up panel forms and construction systems won this concrete project an Excellence award in the TCA 2013 Achievement Awards
The project also included a combination of construction systems: tilt-up panels with slab design in two directions, tilt-up panels working as retaining walls with double-T beams, and tilt-up panels with concrete slabs in one and two directions.
Business Services
Kirby-Smith Machinery Vacuworx Equipment Distributors Network
Vacuworx
Oklahoma City-based Kirby-Smith Machinery, Inc. has been named an official Vacuworx distributor, and was awarded the territories of Oklahoma and Northern Texas.
Concrete Equipment & Products
ARDEX Americas Breakthrough Concrete Finishing Innovation
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Business
Paving 75 tops $620 million
Parking lot work dominates but versatility is widespread
Concrete Forms
Formwork Mortar Leakage
American Society of Concrete Contractors (ASCC)
A concrete contractor recently had a close-out meeting with the Owner and Construction Manager, and was be surprised by the demand for a reduction in payment based on form leakage.
Figure 1 Fins and offsets can be the result of form leakage. But fins and offsets have tolerances as described in ACI 117 and ACI 301. Fins and offsets are allowed but the height of each is controlled by the tolerances. If form leakage were prevented, there should be no tolerances. The fact that the tolerances are included in both ACI 117 and ACI 347 means that form leakage is acceptable but is limited by these ACI documents.
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