From countertops to fireplace surrounds, decorative contractors continue to push the limits of concrete. The beauty of decorative concrete begins with the mix design, and with several precast mixes ...

Concrete has quietly become one of the planet’s biggest climate problems, yet the material itself has barely changed in a ...

Delivering higher strength and accelerated set times than standard concrete mixes, Sakrete's Pro-Mix line of industrial-strength, fast-setting concrete mixes allows most projects to be traffic-ready ...

When recyclers think of wear parts, shredder hammers or knives, baler wear plates or the blades on a shear might come to mind. They likely seldom think of concrete, though in our experience concrete ...

WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind. — Concrete is not glamorous. It is the workhorse of building materials: versatile, durable, and almost universally ubiquitous, with 30 billion tons of concrete produced every year ...

Q. I need to replace a small section of sidewalk that's only 4-feet-by-4-feet. I've never worked with concrete before and wonder if I can actually do this. I see the bags of concrete at the hardware ...

No, it's not a grunge band—it's a powdery binding agent that mixes with gravel, sand, and water to form the hardened slab we call concrete. It's made by heating limestone, iron, alumina, and silica to ...

Ready-mix concrete producers have long resisted adopting digitized delivery and verification processes, mostly due to regional producers coping with different rules and varying customer demands across ...