3 Tips For Concrete Moisture Testing

What people are saying about their experiences By Jason Spangler Everyone knows: There’s the manual—and then there’s the real world.  For the last year or so, those...

3D Printing in Construction

One certainty in our time of technological advances is that things continually change. Fifty years ago, automobiles were built on assembly lines manned by...
commercial flooring

Emerging Flooring Technologies

As time marches on, new technologies, processes, and techniques shape the way commercial flooring contractors operate. From lean construction and the prefabrication of materials...
Floor Stripping

Making Floor Strippers Pitch Perfect

An experiment commissioned to mark the Campaign for Real Ale (CAMRA) Beer Festival found that the secret to pouring the perfect pint is in...

The Tracking Tool

As a construction business owner or manager, making money and saving money are very important aspects to your business. In most cases, you need...
thermal bridges

Helping Insulation Do Its Job

Which will keep you warmer when you’re working outside, a dry shirt or a damp shirt? All of us know from experience that damp clothing—from...

Building Materials

Building materials have come a long way since the invention of mud bricks and timber frames thousands of years ago. Today, thanks to the...
mechanical systems

Hospital Built to Plan

The Denver, Colorado, suburb of Northglenn sold 5.7 acres of vacant land to SCL Health Community Hospitals for the construction of a 60,000-square-foot, community-based...

Get Well Soon

Recent advances in self-healing concrete—based on fungi, bacteria, and even sunlight—have attracted widespread attention. However, a proven and available solution for self-healing, more sustainable...

Ultra Flat Floor Solution

KCI, a 100-percent employee-owned engineering, construction, and consulting firm, showcases RoboClean and RoboFlat solutions for concrete floor flatness and levelness analysis at World of...