Q: I'm about to have a new concrete driveway installed as well as some sidewalks. I asked the bidding contractors how long I might expect the concrete to last. The range given was from 20 to 30 years.

Concrete curing tends to get pushed down the list of priorities on the jobsite. It doesn’t have the same immediate visual payoff as placing and finishing. Add this to budget constraints and tight ...

Curing sounds simple: it is the maintenance of moisture and temperature conditions in freshly placed concrete to promote the hydration of cementitious materials. When done correctly, curing helps a ...

Strata Corp., an experienced builder of military and commercial airfields, used an innovative method for retaining moisture in the concrete of an immense paving project to optimize curing and surface ...

A research team of The Electronics and telecommunications research institute (ETRI) is in the process of developing a technology that can estimate the concrete strength in advance by planting optical ...

The world’s first internal curing concrete additive has been launched in the UAE. Named CureAssure, Asian Paints’ new generation innovative self-curing liquid additive can eliminate the need for ...

The photographs from the recent Haitian 7.0 devastating earthquake of January 12 2010 followed by the magnitude 8.8 earthquake off Chile on February 27, 2010 have driven this basic primmer to ...