Rate of placement and screeding method are baseline decisions that must be made prior to start of placement. Placing/finishing concrete is time sensitive and susceptible to environmental conditions.

Curing sounds simple: it is the maintenance of moisture and temperature conditions in freshly placed concrete to promote the hydration of cementitious materials. When done correctly, curing helps a ...

The American Concrete Institute released a new publication: ACI 308R-16 Guide to External Curing of Concrete. This guide reviews and describes practices, procedures, materials, and monitoring methods ...

A transfer slab is simply a thick reinforced concrete floor slab where a column sits on top of a slab but does not have a column immediately below. In other words, it bridges between supporting ...

A new slab/beam system that is claimed to allow for the forms to be removed and transferred on within four days, bypassing the need to wait 14 to 21 days for the concrete to harden first, has been ...

Despite well designed plans, best material and trained workmanship, there is a risk of a structure’s life span getting shortened if attention is not paid to proper curing. While some take up curing ...

A slab of a warehouse in Secaucus, New Jersey, owned by a national real estate investment advisor and operator was cracking, ...

DUBLIN--(BUSINESS WIRE)--The "Road Construction Equipment in North America: Concrete Paving Equipment - Market Size, Shares, Segmentation, Competitors, Growth, Channels & Trends Underlying the ...