#construction concrete

[vincivilworld]

Concrete Road Construction: Durability and Efficiency

Concrete road construction involves building durable pavements using cement concrete road techniques, which prioritize strength and longevity. This method uses layered systems called concrete road layers, including subgrade, sub-base, base, and surface layers, to ensure stability and load distribution. Unlike asphalt, road construction concrete offers higher resistance to weather, heavy traffic,…

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[an-android-in-a-tutu]

if during drunk driving discourse people were allowed to say don't way in if you don't drink then I'm gonna need everyone who doesn't work in trades to stop talking about blue collar Dean Winchester

[mindblowingscience]

We could be producing concrete that's 30 percent stronger by processing and adding charred coffee grounds to the mix, researchers in Australia discovered. Their clever recipe could solve multiple problems at the same time. Every year the world produces a staggering 10 billion kilograms (22 billion pounds) of coffee waste globally. Most ends up in landfills.

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[dropdome]

Concrete being poured into a shaft for the foundations of the BEA aircraft servicing hangar at Heathrow Airport, 1970

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[londonadayatatime]

Big Smoke, January 2018

[arc-hus]

Atelier Lapidus, Sweden - Arrhov Frick

[interfoto]

230902 — CGN

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[probablyasocialecologist]

Concrete has allowed the housing and infrastructure booms of the last century that have lifted millions into better, safer living conditions. That task is not over, with an estimated 600–756 million dwellings needed globally to reach the UN 2030 goal of universal housing access, primarily in the global south; this is where 94 per cent of cement is now produced, making it essential to many livelihoods and economies. And, while arguably modern technologies such as scanning equipment, design tools and modelling software make it more possible to use less‑standardised materials than concrete for building at scale, there are functions for which concrete is genuinely hard to replace. Deep piling, long‑span bridges, tall buildings and complex energy infrastructures are all innovations of the concrete age.  Since we cannot rely on green concrete at scale, but we also cannot get away from using concrete in some applications, a more nuanced approach must be embraced. The overall use of concrete must be dramatically reduced in favour of a more diverse palette of materials and design strategies. Countries with large existing material stocks must reuse and repair existing buildings, maximising the value of the matter that they already have. Where such places genuinely cannot make do without concrete, recycled cement technologies have a promising role to play. In countries which have a need for mass new building and infrastructure programmes, designers must work with a more varied range of materials as appropriate and affordable to the site and context. This includes bricks, formed from clays or waste material and fired with renewable energy, non‑fired bio‑based materials and stone, reimagining traditional methods of construction and introducing modern innovations that enable their use at scale. Concrete should be reserved for the infrastructure that cannot be done without – data centres to feed ChatGPT hardly count as essential concrete infrastructure.

9 October 2024

[shitpostingfromthebarricade]

Holy shit, the absolute massacre I am about to encounter.

[sannehnagi]

Āsa’ā igāsatai huhuașāșu agelilana tu’au’eara

When the dead walk seek flowing water

Rāho natai agelilana șineneri’io

Because the dead will always avoid this

Igia’ai ui’i tu’esa hē sa’a’esage tine

Swift river is best or broadest lake

Agelilaþa saseta’a he oatā īnaī

To ward against the dead and haven make

Āsa āþāșișo uro itu’ā hanā

If water fails fire is your friend

Uro āþāșișo ata itu’ā gianașita’a

If fire fails it will be your end

[elvnterritory]

Glass Staircase at the Go’o Shrine in Naoshima, Japan

[jasonguilbeau]

Bunker - Ticino - Svizzera 🇨🇭

[colonellickburger]

Lewis Baltz. “Construction detail, East Wall, Xerox, 1821 Dyer Road, Santa Ana, California” (1974)

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[arc-hus]

HUYS Centre, Eeklo, Belgium - ZOOM Architecten