This article is a true account of an accident that resulted in an injury to a worker.
The South Side Market House
Sometimes old buildings get a second life.
Restoring a Civil War Monument
We?re all in business to make money. We bid on projects by offering a plan, production rates, and a schedule and hope to bring things in under the estimated cost.
Fall 2012 Sustainability
Top Ten Sustainability Benefits of Shotcrete
When to Extract Cores
During preconstruction testing and mockups, as well as during shotcrete production, a minimum specified compressive strength is always required in the project specification.
The Oregon City Bridge (Part I)
The Oregon City Bridge, which spans the Willamette River between Oregon City and West Linn, OR, served the community for nearly a century before recently getting a major overhaul.
The Evolution of the Swimming Pool
Pool is a pool is a pool is a pool.? Actually, the correct words are, ?Rose is a rose is a?? and so on. The line, from Gertrude Stein?s poem ?Sacred Emily,? written in 1913, was intended to propose that ?once there, a thing (such as a rose or pool) is what it is and will always be there.”
Natural Fit
As I sat through a seminar highlighting contemporary organic architecture, the realization occurred that shotcrete construction is a seamless fit to this design philosophy.
Accelerator Dosing Pump Calibration and Verification
Accelerators are widely used for underground shotcrete applications.
Brown University
Brown University, a prominent Ivy League university located in Providence, RI, decided to add a new aquatics center with an Olympic-qualifying 164 ft (50 m) pool.