R APID CITY, S.D. (KOTA) - A semi truck carrying a very long concrete beam shut down traffic in a Rapid City intersection Tuesday when the beam broke in half. The truck was turning left onto ...

A construction worker was killed and another was hospitalized Saturday night during Interstate 4 construction in downtown Orlando involving a massive concrete beam. Construction along the 21-mile o… ...

Post and beam construction typically uses half lap joinery with hidden fasteners, and decorative metal braces some of the time.

Concrete's strength and structural integrity come not only in its material properties, but also from how it's molded during construction. An architecture student has devised a clever way to build ...

A Caterpillar C15 diesel engine drives Sauer pumps through a Rexroth motor and Parker oscillators that vibrate the RB550's 8,000-pound horizontal steel beam at up to 55 hertz. Resonant Machines has ...

Ultra-high-performance concrete (UHPC) is rapidly emerging as a premier material for precast concrete construction. First introduced as “reactive powder concrete” in the early 1990s, this ...

In determining the strength of reinforced-concrete beams, the authors have wisely, for the greater part of the book concerned with this problem, assumed that the stress-strain curve for concrete ...

Concrete 8 Questions With a Construction Defect Attorney According to the HUD, 5 million households live in condominiums and 2.3 million condominium projects were built between 1970 and 2003.

Cat Launches Versatile Grading Beams For Excavators A new tool, potentially useful for a wide range of dirt work situations, including sub-base and sub-gradations for asphalt and concrete pavements.