Here, we tell the slab where to crack and widths of contraction joints or cracks in the joints are largely controlled by the joint spacing and concrete shrinkage. As joint spacings and concrete ...

The University of Baltimore (UB) School of Law is the sixth largest public law school in the country. The project consists of 190,000 square feet of new construction at a height of 12 stories.

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 ...

2015 failure at a hotel parking garage in Cherokee, N.C., triggered an investigation of precast double-Ts reinforced with C-Grid. The American Concrete Institute is gearing up to develop ACI’s first ...

A novel approach to rubber recycling could see end-of-life tyres repurposed into concrete for residential constructions as new research shows that it can provide an economically viable and sustainable ...

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Chauncey grew up on a farm in rural northern California. At 18 he ran away and saw the world with a backpack and a credit card, discovering that the true value of any point or mile is the experience ...