In the best of all worlds there wouldn’t be any joints or cracks in concrete floors at all, they wouldn’t shrink or curl—they would remain flat. Technology is moving us in that direction with the ...

Construction joints are formed or placed into slabs to define stopping places or the extent of an individual concrete placement. There are different types of construction joints: butt-type with and ...

Area beneath partial slab collapse in convention center. Investigators, including members of the original design and construction team, are trying to determine why a 60 x 20-ft section of a 6-in-thick ...