Colorado State University has always used a traditional cast-in-place foundation system for its campus buildings. Since university officials were mostly unfamiliar with shotcrete foundations, the ...

The utilization of structural shotcrete for below grade foundation walls has benefits for building developers, above and beyond its performance capabilities. Time savings and material costs are so ...

The American Concrete Institute, through the work of ACI Committee 506, has released ACI PRC-506-22: Shotcrete—Guide. The newly introduced guide provides information on materials and properties of ...

The Quikrete Companies, a leading manufacturer of packaged cement mixes for the construction and home improvement markets recently supplied shotcrete in 3,000-pound bulk bags for a restoration project ...

Opened in 1913 with claims as the world’s largest concrete bridge, the Albertus L. Meyers Bridge in Allentown, Penn. underwent extensive rehabilitation highlighted by pier reconstruction using ...

Concrete specialist Putzmeister will add to its range of underground concrete equipment at Bauma 2016 by unveiling its Wetkret 3 shotcreting equipment and Batchkret 20 underground batching plant. The ...

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The service life of tunnels today is designed to last at least for one hundred years - in the case of the Brenner basis tunnel it is even 200 years. The problem with this: "The service life is ...

Leading underground mining shotcrete specialist Putzmeister is adding new products to its range of underground construction equipment at this year’s world-leading construction machinery fair bauma in ...