When a 12-story condominium building suddenly collapsed last June in Surfside, Florida, one reason was was hiding deep inside the structure. Within its concrete foundation, walls, and floors was a ...

The Fiber Reinforced Polymer (FRP) rebar industry is about thirty years old. The industry started by molding aramid and carbon fibers with various thermoset resins, and then expanded to glass fibers ...

A neuro-research center at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis required 6,700 tons of rebar, a material currently in high demand. Photo courtesy of McCarthy Building Cos. September ...

Standing before a crowd of curious onlookers at a corner of the show floor at the World of Concrete trade show in Las Vegas, Advanced Construction Robotics president and cofounder Jeremy Searock made ...

While many of us might think that concrete structures such as bridges simply stand unaided for decades at a time, the fact is that they require maintenance as often as once every five years. An ...

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In its letter to the European Commission, the European Organisation of Technical Assessment (EOTA) and stakeholders in the construction sector, the ERC advocates the adoption of CE marking through the ...

A construction worker was seriously injured after falling onto a piece of rebar at a Miami job site on Wednesday. The City of Miami Fire Rescue responded to the grisly scene at 77 SE Fifth St. in the ...