Joe Nasvik

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Joe Nasvik is a writer and editor serving the concrete industry. He has 18 years experience as a concrete contractor. Contact him at [email protected].

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Decorative Concrete
A Decorative Mix for Diamond Polishing
Diamond polishing overlay toppings is a significant part of the market so Diamatic, a manufacturer of diamond grinding equipment, decided to develop an overlay product with favorable polishing qualities. Its low shrinkage and hard wearing characteristics, gains strength quickly, and produces a high-polish surface.
Forms
Rebuilding the Smith House After Hurricane Sandy
On October 29, 2012 Hurricane Sandy battered the Jersey Shore area in New Jersey. Susan and Walter Smith’s 1953 bungalow was located in one of the hardest hit areas and it took them three weeks just to get back to their house to see the damage.
The top floor of the house is where the master bedroom is located. Three steel containers were lifted into position to form the bedroom walls. The doors at either end can be opened to view the ocean and allow breezes to flow through.
Business Services
Integrating Accounting with Project Management Eases Growing Pain
Electric-power boom doubles a concrete contractor's gross sales in 60 months. Here's how they regained control and boosted profitability with new software and management structure.
The Lindblad Company’s Tom Lind, president (left), and Mark Stadalsky, vice president (right), witnessed their companies gross sales almost three times in the past five years. With that came the struggle to manage the change that followed. Here is their story.
Concrete Equipment & Products
Building A Velodrome
The Kenosha Park District in Wisconsin is rebuilding its velodrome, a track arena dedicated to bicycle racing. The track has two straight sections and two 180-degree high pitched circular bends. It’s one of the oldest tracks in the U.S., starting in 1927.
Placing pavement on steep slopes is challenging—estimating is more difficult, concrete mixes must be low slump, more labor is needed, equipment needs are different, and finishing is more complicated.
Worksite Equipment
Internet of Things Connects Battery Operated Tools Through the Internet, Bluetooth, WiFi
Milwaukee Tool's ONE KEY feature tracks location, condition and performance of new jobsite power tools built with wifi and bluetooth capability
Coming in January 2016 will be tools, like the drill/driver shown here, with Bluetooth capability that allows users to use their smart phones or tablets to change factory settings to optimize specific tasks. Buttons on the tool allow up to four task settings, making it easy to move from one to the next.
Concrete Equipment & Products
A New Bridge for the St. Croix River
Engineers and contractors collaborate to build a high-tech bridge.
The new St. Croix River crossing between Minnesota and Wisconsin near Stillwater is an “extra-dosed precast segmental” structural concrete bridge. Shown here are the first three 180 ton segments on either side of the pier, held in place by post-tensioned tendons. The blue device is called a “segment lifter” and it also supports a working platform on the edge of the segment that iron-workers use to do the cable tensioning.
Concrete Equipment & Products
Building Deep Foundations
The new Science Building for George Washington University presented big challenges to both the engineer and the contractor. It is nestled into a very narrow space surrounded by three dormitories and the Washington D.C. Metro tunnel.
Concrete Equipment & Products
What To Do About Dominant Joints in Floors
A rare case where doing all the right things can make the problem worse.
Dominant joints can be as much as three-quarters of an inch wide. They are the result of other joints which do not activate or crack.
Concrete Equipment & Products
Building a Seaside Foundation on the Rock
Every year the Concrete Foundation Association (CFA), based in Mt. Vernon, Iowa, holds a contest to honor the best and most difficult foundation projects of the year.
Building the foundation for house on rock is no easy thing. Shown here are the footing pads and piers. Workers are beginning to form the concrete deck which will become the floor of the house.
Concrete Equipment & Products
Making Floor Surfaces, Harder, Denser, and Glossier
Floors that are constructed with Multiquip’s new SlabArmor product can achieve very high gloss readings when they are diamond polished.
Decorative Concrete
Chef Johns
Laurie Carey, the artist who installed the decorative floor, built a platform on wheels to scoot herself and her paints around the floor.
Worksite Equipment
Charging Batteries by Induction
Bosch Tool Company has just introduced a wireless charging system (also called induction charging) for charging batteries — on the tool or off — and it might influence the way we work with hand-held electric tools.
Bosch’s new induction charging system for tool batteries includes a charging pad (right) and a battery (left) that includes a coil of wire located just under the red plastic bottom of the battery. No mechanical connection required.
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