Q. Tim, I’m flummoxed. I’m about to build a large detached garage. The plans call for a 10-inch-thick by 20-inch-wide poured concrete footing with two ½-inch steel bars that run continuously in the ...

While many of us might think that concrete structures such as bridges simply stand unaided for decades at a time, the fact is that they require maintenance as often as once every five years. An ...

For this reason, the concrete is poured around an array of vertically-oriented lengths of steel rebar. Those reinforcing rods end up running through all of the layers, from top to bottom, boosting the ...

Four concrete cooling towers at a coal-fired electrical generation plant exhibited reinforcing steel corrosion that was causing concrete deterioration. This case study follows the repairs to those ...

Fast-curing, high-strength dowel and tie bar adhesion in full-depth concrete repairs is possible with POLY-GRIP from W. R. MEADOWS. Fast-curing, high-strength dowel and tie bar adhesion in full-depth ...

THE PROBLEMChris Long, of Boca Raton, contacted the South Florida Sun-Sentinel concerned about a broken concrete light pole in the median at Camino Real Road and Southwest Seventh Avenue. The twisted ...