Sawtec offers a diamond grinding wheel for use with concrete grinding tools. The Supreme cup wheel is designed to remove coating, level, and grind softer materials without loading up.
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Decorative Resurfacing of Cracked Concrete Balconies
More often than not, decorative resurfacing begins with some type of repair, whether it be patching of small holes before a chemical stain, thin repair of spalled concrete, crack repair, or a full depth structural repair. This article will discuss a project requiring both repair and prevention of recurring cracks on post-tensioned concrete decks.
How Using Admixtures in Concrete Work Saves Time and Money
Discover ways admixtures can improve concrete’s ultimate durability and strength and make it easier to work with.
Integration services through alliance – Construction Software
On Center Software and nSpin offer a technology designed to enhance construction industry software using integration components that link industry-leading take-off, estimating, and accounting products.
New Southwest concrete homebuilder show
The first Southwest Regional Concrete Home Builder Show is scheduled for September 5–6, 2002, in San Antonio, Texas. Permanent Buildings & Foundations magazine (www.permanent buildings.com) the business newsmagazine for the concrete builder and the Cement and Concrete Promotion Council of Texas have joined to launch the new show which will […]
Decorative Concrete Tips: Marbleizing Cast-in-Place Concrete Countertops
The trick is to let the material set with an open (mag trowelled) surface for about one hour for a standard one and one half inch thick top (Temp. dependent), this allows the Polymer to tighten up and lose some of its stickiness.
Sto Texture Coat for Concrete
Sto Corp offers a reformulation of Sto Texture Coat, a two-component, polymer-modified cementitious decorative coating.
Concrete Industry Spotlight: The British Are Coming!
Cross-pollination is one of my favorite concepts to think about. (Isn’t it odd that one could have so much time on their hands!) It’s when an idea or a product from one industry is taken and used in an entirely new way by a person from outside that industry. The person from outside the industry sees the idea or product from a totally different perspective — and also has his or her own set of unique talents to add to the process.
2002 National Concrete Canoe Competition
The ASCE 150th Student Conference in Madison, Wisconsin will include a concrete canoe competition. Participating civil engineering students will design, build, and race canoes constructed of concrete. The event is scheduled for June 21–24, 2002.
Concrete Integrals: Faded or Not?
Concrete Decor’s Q&A in the Winter 2001 issue had included comments discouraging the use of integral coloring for concrete work in high altitude mountain environments. It was implied that integral coloring of concrete is UV unstable resulting in a color faded appearance over time. This is incorrect. The use of […]
