Can you provide recommendations as to pre-construction foundation preparation. I have read where various techniques or procedures such as post tension and piers and beams are available. Thanks for all ...

The Post-Tensioning Institute (PTI), Phoenix, AZ – a non-profit organization for the advancement of post-tensioned, pre-stressed concrete design and construction – now offers the 2008 supplement to ...

Geologists surveyed the soil under the Laguna Beach High School tennis courts and concluded that crack-resistant slabs are not required for five of the six courts. One court has such a slab, called ...

The choice between steel and concrete for framing a major building’s structural system often entails a complex decision-making process involving the architect, structural engineer and contractor. For ...

The post-tensioned slabs of One Hundred, a 36-story building under construction in St. Louis, were a handful for contractor Clayco, thanks to setbacks and irregular jagged slab edges that create a ...