In 2013, Holcim New Zealand, a part of the Lafarge-Holcim Group, set out to design and build two cement storage terminals in New Zealand.
Bordeaux Prison: Rehabilitation and Repair of the Perimeter Walls
In 1891, the city of Montreal, QC, Canada, purchased land in Bordeaux (now the borough of Ahuntsic- Cartierville) for construction of a new prison to replacethe outdated 1820s
2018 PyeongChang Winter Olympics Sliding Track
The 2018 PyeongChang Winter Olympic sliding center is a structure built in PyeongChang-gun, Gangwon Province, to host bobsleigh, luge, and skeleton events.
The Pacific
The Pacific, at 2155 Webster Street in San Francisco, CA, is a concrete building with two levels below grade and nine levels above grade with a total of over 250,000 ft2 (23,000 m2) of usable space.
Ayla Golf Resort Comfort Stations
Looking to the natural dunescapes and mountains of the surrounding desert?an unadorned local architectural heritage and the ancient Bedouin traditions as primary design references?
Dome Technology Corporate Headquarters
Dome Technology recently completed a new corporate office in Idaho Falls, ID.
Mexico City Deep Sewer Rehabilitation with Shotcrete
Mexico City?s deep drainage system is a complex underground network composed of a series of tunnels designed to convey sewage and storm water to discharge and treatment facilities.
Elephant Lands
Controversy surrounding keeping large mammals in zoos has recently increased in the zoological community.
A History of Shotcrete in Refractory
It wasn?t long after Carl Akeley developed the dry-mix process (originally trademarked by the Cement Gun Company as ?gunite?) in the early 1900s that dry-mix started to be used for the fireproofing of mines.
The Evolution of Shotcrete Evaluation and Testing
The versatility of concrete is truly impressive. Changing the concrete aggregate type, gradation, or removing a portion of aggregate can change common concrete to become lightweight,