Q: Tim, my builder is telling me to forget about using reinforcing steel or mesh in my concrete driveway and patio. He says he’ll just add an inch of thickness and that’s good enough. What’s your ...

From warehouse floors to high-tech, pharmaceutical and food manufacturing facilities, the trend toward jointless floors continues to grow anywhere fewer joints, fewer cracks, less maintenance and ...

Fiber-reinforced concrete overlays are an incredibly effective means of extending the service life of a floor while ...

As the demand for more sustainable construction grows and raw material shortages like steel continue to be a challenge, fiber-reinforced concrete has become an increasingly popular choice for flatwork ...

It may sound strange, but concrete in a floor slab is a workshy material – all the the middle bit does is keep the bits at the surface apart. So why not replace it with something lighter? Thomas Lane ...

A corrosion-free composite rebar-reinforced floor slab, based on a lab-tested glass fiber-reinforced polymer rebar-specific punching shear equation, which performs like a steel-reinforced slab at a ...

Above are the rib and block slabs and below are in situ concrete slabs. The rib and block slabs need less raw material in their making which makes them more economical to use during construction among ...

A team of ETH Zurich researchers at the Institute of Technology in the Department of Architecture is developing an integrated structural floor system to address and combat the building industry’s ...