This allows construction professionals to calculate the amount (in cubic yards or number of 60- or 80-lb. bags) of concrete required for square or rectangular slabs, circular concrete slabs, and ...

Sakrete released its new mobile app that calculates the amount of product needed with a simple scan of a project space. The Sakrete augmented-reality based application uses spatial computing to ...

When building a house, two main types of foundations are used: slab-on-grade or below-grade foundations with a basement slab. Climate, including high water tables, frost lines, harsh winters, and ...

Warehouses are not high rises, and vertical pumping of concrete rarely is a problem—but they do pose their own challenges. Defined and stringent Ff/Fl numbers and burnish requirements, high daily ...

Software designers claim their new release makes predicting house footing and slab movement so intuitive that geotechnical engineers will be more prone to do it. “Some practicing engineers don't ...

Chauncey grew up on a farm in rural northern California. At 18 he ran away and saw the world with a backpack and a credit card, discovering that the true value of any point or mile is the experience ...