An upward trend in the use of surface retarders in South Africa’s construction and infrastructure sector is shining a spotlight on the increasing popularity of exposed aggregate concrete finishes.

Reducing nearly 13 tons of CO2, concrete contractor SK Construction used a low-carbon 'green' cement mix for the concrete ...

Two distinct w/c ratios of 0.4 and 0.5 were used in this investigation. In the study, recycled bricks by volume were substituted for natural aggregate in concrete using water/cement ratios of 0%, 5%, ...

Additionally, we treat the crack component as a linear fusion of the pavement texture component and the crack mask. Secondly, a local-to-global learning method (L2G-L) is proposed to learn complete ...