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Protecting Concrete in Water Treatment Plants

Can Your Infrastructure Withstand Contaminated Water?

Responsible for a water treatment plant? You’ll know the importance of keeping water moving safely and reliably through your facility. But how often do you...

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Extending the Life of Critical Concrete Infrastructure

Protecting Highways and Bridges

The Demands on Highway Infrastructure. Across the UK, highways and bridges are expected to do more than ever. They carry increasing traffic volumes, support vital...

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Keeping Highways Moving

Protecting Concrete Infrastructure for the Long Term

Concrete assets under pressure Highway infrastructure must perform under some of the most demanding conditions in the built environment. Bridges, retaining walls, tunnels, culverts, parapets...

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Proactively maintaining highway infrastructure?

Cracking. Chloride attack. Corrosion. Escalating maintenance budgets.

Significant Highway Maintenance Costs Considering highway and civil infrastructure, the cost of maintaining the structure is a significant factor. The same entity (local council or...

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Concrete curing on Car Parks – a Project Manager’s challenges

Does it seem like any curing method comes with a set of problems?

How does curing on car parks challenge a project manager? Construction project managers come across varied issues when it comes to concrete construction on multi-story...

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Highways, Bridges, and Caring for Concrete

Enhance durability and extend service life

It’s Costly to Maintain Concrete Infrastructure If you’re in charge of the care of civil road or bridge infrastructure (or the related repair budget) you’ll...

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What on earth is ‘DEF’?

A hidden threat for concrete precast elements

Don’t you love acronyms? No, us neither. However, they do have some uses, and ‘D.E.F.’ is easier to say (and spell) than Delayed Ettringite Formation....

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Proactive concrete maintenance is crucial for marine and civil infrastructure

Disrupting the Concrete Maintenance Cycle

Reducing costs for the longer term

What Concrete Maintenance Cycle? There are certain situations where the concrete maintenance of a structure becomes a significant, frequent, ongoing cost. We often talk about...

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Wet-basement

Damp Down There?

Concrete basement waterproofing issues?

Big subject. If we discussed all aspects, you’d probably stop reading at about the 30 second mark. WHAT ARE THE CHALLENGES? The usual challenge for...

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Concrete cracking can lead to premature deterioration

Cracking, Sealing, and Healing

How does all concrete have self-healing capabilities?

Let’s start at the start! What causes Concrete Cracking? Concrete can crack in a whole lot of ways. Surprisingly, much of it is related to...

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