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Digging deep: Deep foundation design challenges

GCP Applied Technologies

Digging deep: Deep foundation design challenges. With space at a premium in many urban areas, developers are digging deeper foundations to increase the square footage of residential, commercial, and mixed-use building projects. In other cases, a deep foundation may be needed due to large design loads or poor soil at shallow depths.

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Coverings Announces Top 10 Tile Trends for 2023

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The tile trends were gathered and forecasted by the three leading international tile associations and sponsors of Coverings 2023 —Ceramics of Italy, Tile Council of North America, and Tile of Spain—to highlight the most popular, on-trend styles of tile from the global marketplace. Cobbled Tile Pictured: Unique Ground.

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LOCATION FOCUS: The Heartland of America Beats Strong

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Illinois has a broad economic base with Chicago in the northeast; small industrial cities and great agricultural productivity in the central and western regions; and natural resources like coal, timber and petroleum in the south. Both the Illinois International Port District and the Tri-City Regional Port District near St.

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Housing’s Great Rethink: Workforce Development Takes Center Stage

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Lower-paying jobs in the retail, food service, and hospitality sectors also were roundly rejected or, in the aftermath of the pandemic, rarely reconsidered. He called for an all-hands, industrywide effort to bolster training, compensation, diversity, and productivity. It can’t be solved with everyone playing in their own sandbox.”.

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Waterproofing Membranes for Below Grade Structures

GCP Applied Technologies

Protecting below grade spaces such as tunnels as well as foundation walls and basements is a complex challenge, due to a number of environmental factors that can degrade the structure or cause tremendous damage to what is stored within it. Safeguarding deep foundations. Product Applications. Types of Below Grade Barriers.

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Insulating commercial facilities against dangerous radon gas

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Technical information on the various devices for measuring radon may be found in the EPA publication, Indoor Radon and Radon Decay Product Measurement Device Controls. Common entry points include cracks and openings in the floor slab, cracks in the foundation wall, and sump pits. How and where radon enters the structure. Seal joints.

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Can We Make Home Building a Little Less ‘Interesting?’

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We had all heard of the bubonic plague and Black Death that decimated Europe centuries ago, and most of us had some awareness of the 1918-19 “Spanish Flu” influenza pandemic that ravaged America and is believed to have infected one-third of the world’s population, killing perhaps 50 million. The inevitable result is margin squeeze.

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