Steel reinforcing bars and welded ... reinforcement may not be properly located in the slab. Support reinforcement with chairs or precast-concrete bar supports. Chairs should have sand or base ...

The image at the left shows the steel door frame clamped in position. Check out the finished version on the right after the shelter has been slid into place and bolted to the concrete slab.

As part of addressing this problem, a team at TU Dresden in Germany have completed what is believed to be the world’s first building made with carbon-reinforced concrete, in which the steel ...

As the demand for more sustainable construction grows and raw material shortages like steel ... slab than flexible fibers. Proper external vibration is another key factor when finishing fiber ...

The concrete is poured onto the ground all at one time. Some foundations have post-tension cables or are reinforced with ...

Studio Kaai 7 transformed a dentist's office into a home through a renovation and extension project that scrupulously (and ...

Dr. Phil Pannell: Well back in the 1850s [NOISE] a plasterer from Newcastle called Mr. Wilkinson and he was making concrete floor slabs [NOISE ... so he invented reinforced concrete.