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Vibration isolation for Norfolk House developmentĀ 

Civil + Structural Engineer

These facades are nearly identical to the original, but with slightly adjusted floor heights that are better suited to office use. The solution was a concrete floating floor. Without a floating floor, vibration from the tube would pass into the buildingā€™s structure and be heard as reradiated noise.

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Transforming Your Basement with Bench Footing

UK Construction Blog

However, traditional basement finishing methods often need to pay more attention to a critical first step – installing proper structural support. Bench footing refers to a continuous concrete footing installed around the perimeter of a basement. This is where bench footing comes in. What is Bench Footing?

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What Is Sunken Slab | Advantages & Disadvantages Sunken Slab

CivilJungle

The sunken slab is one of the familiar and adaptable ways to maintain architectural design in especially the washroom, as well as laundry areas where water drainage systems or pipes installed below the floor or tiles. Furthermore, all pipe systems remain below the floor. The concrete of the R.C.C.

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What Is A Concrete Pump | How Does A Concrete Pump Work

CivilJungle

What Is A Concrete Pump? A Concrete Pump is operated to transmit freshly blended concrete from the containers to where it must serve at the construction site, and therefore, it is an important differentia of any construction project. Concrete Pump on Construction Site. Types of Concrete Pump. Truck Mounted Pump .

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What Is Concrete Screed | Concrete Screed Specifications | Characteristics of Concrete Screed | Advantages & Disadvantages of Concrete Screed

CivilJungle

Introduction of Concrete Screed. A construction element which is available in a range of thickness to bring forth the installation surface of the concrete flooring to a considerable height & to produce a surface suitable for installing the desired flooring is called a concrete screed.

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Ready mix concrete life cycle

GCP Applied Technologies

Ready mix concrete life cycle. Concrete producers can leverage advanced concrete admixtures , predictive analytics tools, and more to improve efficiency, from materials management to batching to concrete delivery. Concrete mix design. Concrete admixtures help to enable the use of these alternate pozzolans ā€¦ more.

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How to Kill Tree Roots

CivilJungle

But sometimes we have to kill the roots because they can destroy our home walls, foundations, floor, etc. Killing tree roots with boiling water is a very effective and easy system compared to the other systems. In this system for killing the trees, we have to follow some steps. How to Kill Tree Roots in Pipe?