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When New Leaf Community Markets decided to construct a new 20,000-square-foot location in Santa Cruz, Calif., the flooring was one feature the company wanted to be unique, durable and representative of the beach community in which the natural food store would be located.
What is the best concrete polishing process for your job? Should you polish concrete wet or dry? To determine the answer, you must ask the following questions before each job. What is the condition of the concrete floor, the environment it occupies, and the desired look of the finished product? […]
Maintenance is something that torments most decorative concrete contractors, unless, that is, there is a significant maintenance profit center to their business. In the case of The Concretist, there is not.
Decorative concrete is a highly specialized form of construction. The product itself is unique, the tools, materials and construction methodologies employed are specialized, and the people who produce construction art are creative, dedicated artisans.
Weeping walls are a water feature in which the water trickles down the side of a wall, a piece of glass or a similar surface.
This ambitious outfit maintains two locations to serve the decorative concrete needs of greater Los Angeles.
A better understanding of how carbon dioxide is absorbed by concrete.
By combining a lime-based binder with a treated hemp shiv, the Tradical Hemcrete mixture provides an extremely sustainable, carbon-negative alternative.
Today’s trend has less to do with any certain product and more to do with a weak economy and saving money. Just like people are finding ways to make their cars go another year to save money, so too are they are looking for ways to make their existing concrete work another year.
The RMC Research & Education Foundation celebrated Earth Day 2009 by highlighting its most recent research on the use of recycled materials in concrete.
