Quotes Category: Concrete Tips

47 Coping: The capping or covering placed upon the exposed top of a wall (or parapet), usually of stone, to throw off and prevent the rain-water soaking in to it.

41 String course: A horizontal (usually ornamental) course projecting along the face of a building (usually introduced at every floor level or under Windows or below parapets) for imparting architectural …

36 Vibrated Concrete: Concrete consolidated by vibration from an internal or external vibrator.  It requires very much less water for effective placing than does concrete compacted by punning, therefore it …

28 ADMIXTURES: A material other than water. Aggregates and hydraulic cement, used as an ingredient of concrete or mortar, and added to the batch immediately before or during its modify …

24 Abutment: A concrete support wall constructed at both ends of a bridge or an arch, in order to resist the horizontal force from the bridge or the arch, support …