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September 2018
   

COMPANY NEWS

PREVent-C Admixture Reduces Future Maintenance on Rodgers Road Bridge 

Located in Wilmington, Delaware a maintenance project was due to preserve the bridge's structural integrity and long term stability. With a variety of rehabilitation options, a mill-and-overlay repair was scheduled to take place. Overlays come with hardships such as high occurrence of shrinkage cracks that lead to freeze-thaw deterioration requiring additional maintenance in the future. PREVent-C was implemented to reduce shrinkage by 85-90% that will lead to a longer life cycle. 

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TECHNOLOGY 

Bringing GIS and BIM Together Will Improve Road Design and Management

Today in the architecture, engineering, and construction industry - critical data is lost between transitions of planning, design and construction. Many software systems are only familiar with their own data sets and cannot properly translate data. So, often, information needs to be manually re-created. When geographic information science (GIS) and building information modeling (BIM) come together data redundancy is eliminated, which ultimately increases better designs and saves money.

 

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INDUSTRY NEWS

Washington State University Creates Alternative to Concrete

Researchers create sustainable alternative to traditional concrete using coal fly ash. Making use of coal production waste and reducing concrete production highlight two major environmental problems. Fly ash plays a big role in waste management with 50 percent ending up in landfills. With continuous testing they hope to commercialize the patented technology.


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Plastic Shrinkage Cracking in Cold Weather

In hot weather it is common to experience plastic shrinkage cracking, but many do not know it can happen in cooler temperatures as well. It stems from humidity dropping during cold weather which increases the evaporation rate. Plastic shrinkage cracks will not affect the structural integrity and can only be seen on the surface of the slab, but can affect durability overtime.


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