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GeneralCommentariesNew Column, “Shotcreter Spotlight,” to Celebrate Nozzlemen and Crews, Support Staff, and Women in Shotcrete

Cindy Spires, Managing Editor

The editorial staff at Shotcrete magazine have created a new column entitled “Shotcreter Spotlight.” Its purpose is to shine a spotlight on the nozzlemen and teams who prep, shoot, sculpt, and finish the everyday jobs, the award-winning jobs, and everything in between. This new column

GeneralShotcrete = Sustainability

The Summer 2013 issue of Shotcrete magazine’s Sustainability column marked the completion of a 10-article series detailing the “Top 10 Sustainability Benefits of Shotcrete.” We’ve had great contributions to the series by various authors, including Cathy Burkert, Michael Cotter, Oscar Duckworth, Charles Hanskat, Joe Hutter,

GeneralCommentariesFraming Smartphone Photos for Shotcrete Jobs Using the Rule of Thirds

Cindy Spires

With the improvements in smartphone technology over the last decade, many of the phones we have in our hands are just as good at taking quality photos as some point-and-shoot cameras. In the absence of a professional photographer to follow us around and shoot pictures

GeneralThe Jetcreter – The First Continuous-Feed, Dry-Mix Gun

Ted Sofis

During the summer of 1970, on my 18th birthday, my father woke me up and told me they needed me on a job. I drove out that morning in July to the Crucible Specialty Steel plant in Midland, PA. It was my first experience working

GeneralCoastal Gunite Construction Company Celebrates 40 years in Business

Coastal Gunite Construction Company delivers shotcrete construction services to build, maintain and rehabilitate concrete structures. Founded in 1983, Coastal Gunite Construction Company has developed a reputation for quality, integrity, and meeting strict performance requirements for both large and small projects. Their specialized experience in structural

GeneralHigh-Production, Quality Shotcrete

Bruce Russell

High-production shotcrete projects are amazing to observe; when operating at optimum level, it appears to be very simple. Those of us in the shotcrete industry know better; there are many well-trained people and detail-based processes required to make it all happen. The following is a

GeneralNatural Fibers for Sustainability in Shotcrete Applications

Joe McJunkins, Jessica Silva Ph.D., & Jisha Hechel

The global construction industry consumes millions of tons of non-renewable resources every year. Conventional construction materials are known to be produced from sources that require an extremely high energy demand and, therefore, produce a large carbon footprint. The use of renewable, natural fiber resources plays

ArchitecturalInternationalGeneralArtistic Shotcrete Use in Exhibit Fabrication

Christopher Foster

The zoological and aquarium industry has been successfully using shotcrete placement within animal habitats for several decades. The flexibility and durability of shotcrete provides natural settings that allow for better animal enrichment over caged habitats. Zoo guests also benefit from viewing animals in a more organic habitat where the animals exhibit their natural behaviors

StructuralGeneralMass Shotcrete Wall Construction and Thermal Control Plan

Lihe Zhang, Dudley R. Morgan, lain Kirk, Anastasia Rolland, and Robert Karchewski

Wet-mix shotcrete has been used more and more for structural applications in the past few decades. Recently, wetmix shotcrete was successfully used to construct a mass structural wall with congested reinforcement and minimum dimensions of 1. 0 m in a sewage treatment plant.

GeneralIs your back trying to tell you something?

Oscar Duckworth

Construction has a back problem. After the common cold, back pain is the most common reason why construction workers miss work. Worse, lower back injury is the single leading cause of long-term workplace disability. The back pain crisis plagues the construction industry. Why? It is the physical heavy work that is typical to active construction work.