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Section: Concrete > Slabs & Flatwork
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Paving 75 tops $620 million
Parking lot work dominates but versatility is widespread
June 16, 2014
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.
May 30, 2014
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.
Concrete Repair
What You Need to Know About Plastic Shrinkage Cracking
KB Engineering LLC
Understanding the causes of plastic shrinkage cracks, monitoring jobsite conditions, and implementing precautionary measures can prevent or at least minimize these unsightly cracks from occurring.
May 28, 2014
What You Need to Know About Plastic Shrinkage Cracking
Concrete Equipment & Products
Hot Weather Effects on Concrete
Twining Inc.
High temperatures. Low humidity. High winds. These conditions typify hot weather and present many challenges to the concrete contractor. Here are some of the ways concrete petrographers look at concrete affected by hot weather conditions.
May 27, 2014
Figure 1: Reflected light photomicrograph of polished surface showing dark, low w/cm mortars (green bars) coating aggregate particles. These are typical indicators of retempering.
Concrete Equipment & Products
Mutually Beneficial Relationships Creates Solution
May 16, 2014
Pictured is the completed service bay at Western States Equipment Company after cleaning with the autoscrubber and before applying the FirstPolish, step three.
Concrete
Non-typical Tilt-Up Construction Methods Build New St. Louis Art Museum Building
Tilt-up concrete panels were ground and polished prior to erection in order to get a final finish looking similar to granite
May 12, 2014
Making the final finish of tilt-up concrete panels resemble granite required grinding 1/2 in. of material from the finished face and polishing of the panel prior to erection, highlighting the profile of the various specialty aggregates used.
Decorative Concrete
Foreign Particles Exposed
April 23, 2014
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Concrete Equipment & Products
How to Create Strong, Jointless, High-Performance Floors
April 23, 2014
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Concrete Equipment & Products
What’s In Your Toolbox?
April 23, 2014
Concrete Equipment & Products
Wide Bay Superflat VNA Concrete Floors
Structural Services Inc.
Ultimately, it's up to the facility owner to determine how their Defined Traffic or F-min concrete slabs will be constructed. If the owners don’t want corrective grinding in their defined traffic aisles, then the narrow strip construction method is best.
April 23, 2014
When it came time to measure the placements against the F-min specification and render a certification for compliance, a Floor Levelness and Flatness firm used the F-min Profiler to measure the exact wheel path of the intended material handling equipment. This allowed for instant results ensuring accurate measurements and layout of spot grinding in out-of-tolerance areas.
Sealcoating Equipment & Materials
The Parking Lot Professionals
3119 N Golden Ave.
San Bernardino, CA 92404
April 2, 2014
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Lowe's, Habitat For Humanity Build Homes in 10 Cities to Recruit Volunteers
Lowe's
From Seattle to Atlanta, volunteers framed homes in Lowe's store parking lots to raise awareness of the need for volunteers to help Habitat.
March 31, 2014
ore than 100 volunteers kicked off spring and the Hammers for Habitat volunteer drive under the California sun at Lowe’s of Central Long Beach.
Concrete Equipment & Products
Not Meshing Around
March 20, 2014
The FORTA-FERRO macro-synthetic fiber was used in a very large slab on metal deck project in Middleton, Del., that provided a working surface for the 2nd-level order fulfillment operations for the Amazon.com division of Amazon Corporation.
Concrete Equipment & Products
High-temperature Concrete Takes Form at Marine Air Station
A combination of slipform paving, concrete forms and screeds helps a new Osprey taxiway expansion take flight.
March 17, 2014
The Speed Screed Heavy-Duty is designed specifically for low-slump, high-production applications, making it well suited for the Miramar project.
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Byrne & Jones Construction
Founded in 1976, St. Louis-based is the region’s largest commercial paving contractor and serves its clients through three divisions – concrete, sports, and asphalt. The firm builds and maintains parking lots, roads and highways, athletic fields, running tracks, tennis courts, underground drainage systems and paved surfaces.
11745 R Lackland Road
Maryland Heights, MO 63044
March 17, 2014
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Concrete Grinders & Scarifiers
Video: How To Be Successful With The New EDCO WedgeLess Grinder
This presentation is about the Wedge-Less Concrete Floor Grinders that feature an updated design, new accessories and great performance
March 4, 2014
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Concrete Equipment & Products
Installing Floors that Don’t Curl
February 25, 2014
Shown here is a two-list concrete placement. The first lift is placed and laser-screeded (shown at the bottom right). The top lift, concrete with synthetic macro fibers and admixtures, is placed within minutes afterwards.
Decorative Concrete
Polished Concrete Offers Residential Style
February 25, 2014
Black polished concrete floors and a two-story, board-formed, cast-in-place concrete fireplace offer raw texture in this modern home.
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