non-wood forms. With the concrete industry moving in the "green" direction, and with an emphasis being placed on the materials used, the trend to use aluminum or plastic forms instead of wood is ...

One of the topics of the Innovation in Construction Symposium this year was insulated concrete form buildings.

Formwork are temporary or permanent concrete forms for building structures from concrete. Basic specifications for concrete forms include height, width, and hole pattern. Face sheet, bracing, side ...

If you’re planning to have concrete poured for a footing or foundation, then an innovative Canadian building product is worth ...

Three new surface finishes for as-cast formed concrete are defined in the new ACI 301-10 Specifications for Structural Concrete, which supersedes ACI 301-05. Rough-Form and Smooth-Form As-Cast ...

The ancient Romans were masters of building and engineering, perhaps most famously represented by the aqueducts. And those ...

To this day Roman concrete structures can be found in mundane locations such as harbors, but also the Pantheon in Rome, which to this day forms the largest unreinforced concrete dome in existence ...

Self-consolidating concrete: Self-consolidating concrete is a form of concrete that sets and hardens quickly, without cement mixers. It can be poured under water, and once it’s dry, it will ...

U.S. Air Force officials installed a new kind of structure in the waters of St. Andrew Bay on the shore of the Tyndall U.S.

On the North Atlantic Treaty Organisation, this rhetoric takes concrete form and Europe would probably see the biggest ...

Concrete, once viewed primarily as an industrial material, has evolved into a symbol of modern luxury and sophistication. Its ...

By incorporating graphene into a limestone and calcined clay cement mix, the team has significantly reduced the carbon ...