Sources: Federal Highway Administration; National Ready Mixed Concrete Association, Alexandria, Va.; CP staff The latest Federal Highway Administration TechNote sheds critical light on a metric that concrete practitioners will weigh as the supplementary cementitious materials universe expands and market conditions compel a lower portland cement clinker factor in mix designs. FHWA HRT-25-050 Reactivity of Supplementary Cementitious Materials authors assess the chemical reactions…
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Combilift streamlines precast transport in signature, disruptive style
Sources: Combilift, Monaghan, Ireland; CP staff Combilift extends the outside the box thinking behind its multidirectional, sideloading and articulated forklift series to the Self-Propelled Inloader COMBi-SPI, a vehicle handling up to 30-tonne elements in precast concrete operations. The truck muscles concrete—or large glass or glazing assembly—loads on industry standard Inloader Pallets, which lift on and off twin rails running the…
Read MoreUT Austin Professor Juenger begins term as ACI president
Sources: American Concrete Institute, Farmington Hills, Mich.; CP staff Meeting in Toronto earlier this month for the ACI Concrete Convention, American Concrete Institute members elected University of Texas Department of Civil, Architectural and Environmental Engineering Professor Maria Juenger, FACI, as president for the 2025-2026 term. She is active in numerous ACI committees and, over a 2009-2020 window, earned the organization’s…
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