When you next get the chance to go outside, I want you to find a hole in the ground that is an entrance to some critters den. Make certain the den occupants are not close by. Carefully place your ...

A contractor and team of manufacturers tested 15 different methods and mixes for pouring concrete slabs at cold temperatures side by side. Here's what they found. In the course of testing concrete ...

SARASOTA -- When you're buying a house, you look it over carefully. You search the roof, the walls, the floors, for flaws. But what about the bottom? If only you could see underneath the house to look ...

In the dome of the Pantheon in Rome, several construction techniques were used to allow such a bold construction to stand. One concerns the composition of the concrete (in this case, non-reinforced ...

Adding steel or microsynthetic fibers to concrete isn’t new; we’ve been doing it for the past 40 years. Macrosynthetic fibers are a more recent development and they offer solutions to floor and ...

DEAR TIM: My concrete driveway has eight large slabs. The driveway slopes down from my garage to the street. The straight-line gaps between the slabs has enlarged, and some cracks are as wide as 2 ...

Ducorr 's Ioncrete™ 197 system embeds cathodic protection into raft foundations, basement slabs, and retaining walls at the construction stage ...

Pink's Concrete Design launches a new digital platform for CT residents, offering expert resources on polished ...