A good portion of concrete contractors offer cast-in ... "An overlaid panel would take far less form release material applied to it, whereas a BB raw wood you would have to oil it fairly heavily ...
ACI 301-05 did not allow form-facing materials with raised grain, torn surfaces, worn edges, dents or other defects that would impair the texture of the concrete surface. ACI 301-05 also required ...
In the new Phaidon book "Concrete Architecture," Los Angeles writers Sam Lubell and Greg Goldin examine a construction material that’s often derided as the building block of urban eyesores ...
Scientists have been tinkering with concrete in an effort to improve upon the world's most widely used construction material — and they’ve notched some notable successes. New forms of concrete ...
An architecture PhD student at ETH Zurich has developed a simple solution for building concrete floors in a more ...
Construction materials such as concrete and plastic have the potential to lock away billions of tons of carbon dioxide, ...