Q: I was doing research about house foundations and came across interlocking foam forms that stack on top of one another. They assemble much like children's plastic blocks. Does a concrete foundation ...

For decades, concrete walls and foundations were made the same way. Plywood or plain boards are built into forms that contain steel reinforcing bars (rebar) and into which wet concrete is poured. When ...

Q. Hello, Tim. I was doing research about house foundations and came across interlocking foam forms that stack on top of one another. They assemble much like children’s plastic blocks. Does a concrete ...

The Concrete Foundations Association (CFA) has provided an update related to the continued industry-wide effort to mitigate the current shortage of steel form ties across the North American markets.

In this video, I cut cardboard concrete tube forms to level and mix concrete for pouring footings and concrete piers for a workshop foundation. The video also includes a comparison of fiberglass rebar ...

A mixture of cement and charcoal powder could enable houses to store a full day’s worth of energy in their concrete foundations. This new way of creating a supercapacitor – an alternative to batteries ...

(MENAFN- EIN Presswire) EINPresswire/ -- As residential construction continues to evolve across the Gulf South, the role of proper concrete work has taken on renewed importance in ensuring structural ...

According to James Baty, executive director of the Concrete Foundations Association (CFA), the shortage of steel form ties is not only reducing production capacity for contractors, but it is also ...