Using SmartRock® Plus to Defend your Concrete
June 26, 2017
You’re not alone. It’s not only in your market that testing labs produce bad results and you have to pay to defend your concrete. This…
Using SmartRock® Plus to Defend your Concrete
You’re not alone. It’s not only in your market that testing labs produce bad results and you have to pay to defend your concrete. This…
What if there was a new technology to help you quickly, easily improve the profitability of your ready mix business? What would this “ideal” new…
Could SmartRock® Plus Replace Concrete Cylinders for Acceptance Testing?
In a typical construction project, the strength of the concrete is assumed to be the same as the strength of the cylinders cast from that…
SmartRock® Plus: Real-Time Concrete Strength
Why would anybody need to know the strength of their concrete at any given moment on the jobsite? SmartRock® is #1 and we can prove…
Space Concrete and the Future of Colonies on Mars
An Alternative To Shipping Tonnes of Concrete To MarsWith NASA predicting that humans will set foot on Mars for the first time by the year…
Concrete Speakers Create Pure Sound by Reducing Vibrations
Sleek design and Superior Sound PerformanceToday we are always striving to find new and innovative ways of producing a wide range of products in a…
Slag Cement Life Cycle Assessment Calculator Free to Download
Get ready, ready-mix concrete industry, because the Slag Cement Association (SCA) has just introduced a new Life Cycle Assessment (LCA) calculator for slag cement, and…
Fire Deteriorates Atlanta’s I-85 Concrete Bridge
A raging fire, now suspected to be the result of an act or arson, led to the most used bridge in Atlanta collapsing on Thursday,…
Relieving Pressure on Concrete Foundation Walls with Stud Rails
A deep five-level underground concrete foundation to support a 45-storey condo that is currently being built in downtown Toronto is using an innovative method to…
What to do with Captured Carbon?
With concrete being the second most consumed substance on earth (next to water), , it is no secret that the concrete industry is one of…
More Than 100,000 Residents Evacuation Due to Spillway
Early last week it was reported that massive sections of corroded concrete led to the closure of the Oroville, California dam. Unfortunately, millions of gallons…
The Sinking Millennial Tower – AKA the Modern-Day Leaning Tower
In early November of 2016, news broke that one of the United States’ most luxurious residential towers are sinking and tilting – which has led…
Replacing the I-75 Rouge River Bridge Concrete 2017
The largest concrete surface in Michigan is the I-75 Rouge River Bridge, and as it is now scheduled to be replaced, Metro Detroit is looking…
Defects Aren’t Always a Bad Thing – Just ask the Ancient Romans
Concrete is a highly regarded building material in large part due to its inherent strength and durability – something that was first recognized by the…
Cement + Water + Wood = Concrete?!
The current outbreak the mountain pine beetle and its microbial associates, native to the forests of western North America from Mexico to central British Columbia…
Simplify Your Concrete Mixes with this All-in-One Additive
With concrete being one of the most popular construction materials used by engineers and professionals worldwide, it is easy to assume that this widespread material,…
America’s First Vertical Evacuation Shelter
Seismologists are predicting a one-in-three probability of a catastrophic earthquake with a very high likelihood for a subsequent tsunami to hit the coast of the…
Laser Scanning: New Fire Damage Detection in Concrete
Though concrete is known to be a material which has high fire-resistance, its physical, chemical and mechanical properties do endure severe changes when subjected to…
