Chauncey grew up on a farm in rural northern California. At 18 he ran away and saw the world with a backpack and a credit card, discovering that the true value of any point or mile is the experience ...

GULFPORT, MS (WLOX) – Another truck, loaded with chunks of concrete, arrived at the Warren Paving plant on Reichold Road Monday morning. The pieces were piled on tall mounds of broken slabs that were ...

Brionna is a writer specializing in home improvement, construction, and real estate topics. She leverages her background as a civil engineer and interior decorator as well as her love for ...

Contraction joints (sometimes called control joints) are used in unreinforced and lightly reinforced slabs-on-ground to minimize random cracking. By creating straight-line weakened-planes in concrete, ...

Owners and architects choose polished concrete as an alternative to floor coverings, but the results can be particularly disappointing when polishing is specified for an elevated slab. Most ...

For landscapes, approximately 75 percent of emissions come from embodied carbon. These are generated by the extraction, manufacturing, transportation, and installation of landscape materials. The ...