The modern waste industry is redefining what durability means. Beyond just surviving heavy traffic, a concrete floor must ...

Concrete is the unsung hero of residential construction. From driveways and sidewalks to patios and, most importantly, ...

PUNE: The Times of India correspondent, who visited the site on Sunday, had a first hand experience of the poor quality of the 'reinforced cement concrete (RCC) slabs'. PUNE: The Times of India ...

A corrosion-free composite rebar-reinforced floor slab, based on a lab-tested glass fiber-reinforced polymer rebar-specific punching shear equation, which performs like a steel-reinforced slab at a ...

Roughly two-thirds of the backyard of our new house is covered with concrete slab and so I thought I would go our there and break it up with a sledgehammer in advance of putting in a new garden. The ...

Slab-style concrete countertops are customizable in terms of length, width, shape, and layout. You can add decorative edge detailing or convenient features such as a built-in drain board or an ...

Above are the rib and block slabs and below are in situ concrete slabs. The rib and block slabs need less raw material in their making which makes them more economical to use during construction among ...

Q. My garage roof is leaking and I can’t seem to fix it. It is a concrete block-walled, 2-car garage with a flat, slightly pitched reinforced concrete slab roof that has some hairline cracks that ...

Calcium chloride is the most effective and least expensive cold weather accelerator for concrete. But its use may be limited by building codes or prohibited by some specifications. Contractors then ...