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As time has gone along, polished concrete has picked up market share and damaged contracting companies at the same time. If the profit margins of this industry do not rebound soon the fear is that polished concrete will become an extremely rare and specialized process.
There are some important, key factors that can help you be more successful with your concrete countertops. Here I will discuss a fundamental ingredient: water. We’ve all worked with concrete and water, but working with a material isn’t the same as knowing how it works.
Mike Branch, owner of The Rental Branch in St. Joseph, Mich., had a vision to create the most concentrated display of decorative concrete anywhere. Mission accomplished. Mostly finished as of late 2010, it’s been nearly a year in the making, though it felt more like 10 years.
Savvy contractors can gain greater project input and can secure more work for their companies by becoming involved with design professionals during the early stages of project design.
Pervious concrete has very unique properties, but that doesn’t mean you have to forgo all decorative concrete techniques. Here are five ways that decorative concrete contractors can adapt decorative techniques to pervious concrete.
Most of the requirements in the IGCC that could apply to decorative concrete are not really that new, and often they are things you already do.
Mapei has retooled its United States website. The recent launch highlights the results of careful listening to the needs of customers combined with state-of-the art website design. Mapei has added a tutorial for contractors and architects that helps them better understand the components of the LEED (Leadership in Energy and […]
SASE Co. Inc. has launched an improved website. The website off ers many of the same features as before, but now includes complete diamond line listings, accessory information, news and expanded product descriptions. Accessibility has also increased, as the new site is HTML-based instead of utilizing Flash programming. The “Downloads” […]
The Massachusetts Institute of Technology has released preliminary research findings that will help set a new standard in life-cycle assessment modeling. The studies, which are part of an ongoing research initiative at the MIT Concrete Sustainability Hub, will quantify the cradle-to-grave environmental costs of paving and building materials and will […]
Haiti produces some of the poorest concrete in the world. They skimp on cement and mix the materials on the ground using shovels. Following the January 2010 earthquake in Haiti, Cart-Away Concrete Systems Inc. took up the challenge to improve the quality of concrete in the country. A five-man team […]
