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1. Engineers ground rebar, climbing formwork in tower core ascent
(TECHNICAL TALK)
... top out last month, its concrete-steel composite core rising sansrebar, the Rainier Square Tower joins a Seattle roster of concrete milestones for compressive strength (Two Union Square, 1988-89, 20,000 ...
Created on 29 September 2019
2. Coalition maps Embodied Carbon in Construction Calculator launch
(Concrete Currents)
... American Institute of Steel Construction, and BlueGreen Alliance; Material Partners Armstrong Ceiling & Wall Solutions, BASF Corp., CarbonCure Technologies, Interface Inc., Kingspan Group, and USG ...
Created on 23 September 2019
3. Institute certifies stainless steel rebar fabricators
(Concrete Currents)
Source: Concrete Reinforcing Steel Institute, Schaumburg, Ill. Stainless Steel Fabrication is the latest addition to Concrete Reinforcing Steel Institute certification programs. Candidate plants undergo ...
Created on 18 September 2019
4. Administration stresses “Buy American” through revised procurement provisions
(Government Affairs)
... to the mid-July order, the FAR Council shall consider proposing for notice and public comment an amendment providing that a) materials in finished iron and steel products shall be considered to be of foreign ...
Created on 10 September 2019
5. Rebar-free, but steel-laden, HPC core shoulders 850-ft. Seattle tower
(Concrete Currents)
... steel to composite panels: Half- or ¾-in. thick plates, connected with 1-in. diameter steel cross ties running vertically and horizontally on 12-in. center grids.  Seattle’s Rainier Square will be ...
Created on 09 September 2019
6. JOINTLESS FEAT
(Features)
... It uses Sinclair’s optional Armor joint, shaped like a sine wave and formed with two pieces of 1/8-in. thick steel, 6 inches deep. The Armor joint wave pattern eliminates the potential for slab damage ...
Created on 06 August 2019
7. ORGANIZATIONS - JULY 2019
(Briefs)
... connector using commercially available corrugated steel ducts and grouts. Investigators will conduct the required ACI ITG 5.1 and ITG 1.1 validation testing of precast wall and frame structures using the ...
Created on 06 August 2019
8. ACI 318-19 Building Code debuts with new aggregate, SCM provisions
(Concrete Currents)
... full-color illustrations to improve clarity, and includes major technical changes in higher reinforcing steel yield strengths; added shotcrete and deep foundation provisions; seismic requirements for deep ...
Created on 05 August 2019
9. Google sister company’s timber dream warrants safe building practice search
(Editorial)
... notes Sidewalk Labs, which characterizes the material as “easier to manufacture and better for the environment than concrete or steel, yet just as strong and fire-resistant.” With an adjacent water source ...
Created on 01 August 2019
10. MANUFACTURERS - JUNE 2019
(Briefs)
... micro rebar specialist Helix Steel has appointed Construction Innovations Co., a Malta, N.Y., as its Northeast U.S. representative. Complete with its own engineering team, led by Bob Edwards, Construction ...
Created on 18 July 2019
11. Ductile rebar research team seeks simplified precast connector specs
(Concrete Currents)
... connector using commercially available corrugated steel ducts and grouts. Investigators will conduct the required ACI ITG 5.1 and ITG 1.1 validation testing of precast wall and frame structures using the ...
Created on 12 June 2019
12. When carbon accounting accuracy climbs, wood building claims sink
(Editorial)
... the limitations of life cycle assessment (LCA) studies whose results have thus far painted a more favorable greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions profile of wood versus concrete or steel buildings. The Cement ...
Created on 24 May 2019
13. Life cycle-attuned Institute updates Impact Estimator for Buildings
(Concrete Currents)
... Cement Association of Canada, plus the American Institute of Steel Construction and American Iron and Steel Institute.   ...
Created on 21 May 2019
14. ORGANIZATIONS - APRIL 2019
(Briefs)
... High Strength Steel Reinforcement,” under principal investigator Jack Moehle, Ph.D., University of California, Berkeley. Project findings stand to further validate the case for elevated rebar strength ...
Created on 06 May 2019
15. Report chips away at wood industry’s low carbon building narrative
(Concrete Currents)
... whose results have thus far painted a more favorable greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions profile of wood versus concrete or steel buildings. As the main tools to measure building products’ carbon footprints ...
Created on 15 April 2019
16. Foundation backs high strength rebar research
(Concrete Currents)
Sources: Charles Pankow Foundation, McLean, Va.; CP staff The Charles Pankow Foundation’s latest grant will help fund a project, “Foundation Mats with High Strength Steel Reinforcement,” under principal ...
Created on 07 March 2019
17. Northwestern University wall rides wave of creativity to PCI Building Award
(Final Form)
... structure against the crashing waves and freeze-thaw environment, precise placement of epoxy reinforcement, embedded stainless steel angles, and hot-dipped galvanized/epoxy connectors was critical. To ...
Created on 26 February 2019
18. ORGANIZATIONS - FEBRUARY 2019
(Briefs)
...  Anthony Johnson Anthony Johnson, P.E., has joined the Post Tensioning Institute as executive director. He arrives from the Concrete Reinforcing Steel Institute’s Regional Manager ...
Created on 25 February 2019
19. AIA, Microsoft, Steel Institute support embodied carbon calculator
(News Scope)
... American Institute of Steel Construction for contributions to the EC3 grant, plus MKA Foundation, Interface, Microsoft and Skanska USA for significant industry sponsorship.  ...
Created on 19 January 2019
20. Council grades states on energy efficiency through building, vehicle metrics
(Government Affairs)
... that WRDA reauthorization encourages resilient techniques by the Corps to ensure extreme weather mitigation and provide a return on investment,” notes Concrete Reinforcing Steel Institute CEO Danielle ...
Created on 27 November 2018

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