Self-healing concrete materials like BioFiber provide a path toward a more sustainable building model, which aligns with ...
The “Building Code Requirements for Structural Concrete Reinforced with Glass Fiber-Reinforced Polymer (GFRP) Bars” provides minimum requirements for the materials, design, and detailing of structural ...
Productivity. It’s not a formula. It’s not material. It’s a concept and one easier said than done. Historically, productivity has been a challenge for the concrete construction industry to tackle.
Architectural concrete as we know it today was invented in the 19th century. It reached new heights in the U.S. after World War II when mid-century modernism was in vogue, following in the footsteps ...
The Concrete Foundations Association explains the references supporting the decisions to form cast-in-place concrete with any material and why aluminum is not a structural concern when used as the ...
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To structural engineers, it’s no mystery why the earthquake in Mexico this week turned a school into a death trap: The building was made of brittle concrete. Such buildings don’t have enough steel ...
One of Bertrand Goldberg’s twin Marina City towers being built in Chicago. When completed in 1968, the towers were the tallest reinforced concrete structures in the world. (Courtesy Geoffrey Goldberg) ...