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Achieving better outcomes when pouring and placing concrete slabs

Achieving Better Outcomes with Admixtures

Specialist concrete admixtures are helping industry professionals like you!

Better outcomes for everyone involved You might be surprised to know that an additive to the concrete mix can add value in more ways than...

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Liquid admixtures are recommended for better concrete mix

4 Benefits of Liquid Admixture for Concrete

There’s more to selecting waterproofing and workability admixtures than meets the eye.

When selecting admixtures for concrete, it can be difficult to ‘compare apples with apples’. If you’re into mix design, no doubt there are several reliable...

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Designing better basements and making better preconstruction decisions

From Good Intentions to Better Basements

Bridging the Gap in Waterproofing Practice

Achieving Better Basements We’ve spoken to many people through the construction industry in New Zealand and Australia, about basement waterproofing, and there’s a general theme:...

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Concrete basement watertight seepage leaking waterproofing required

We Built It Watertight… Didn’t We?

Why Basement Waterproofing Needs a Seat at the Design Table

Watertight Decision-making? The Hidden Costs of Late and Fragmented Waterproofing Decisions Basement construction in Australia and New Zealand is on the rise. But behind the...

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Multi-storey basement under construction built to correct standards

Clearer Standards Down Deep?

The need of clarification for basement construction in Australasia

Clearer Standards Needed for Basement Waterproofing As urban landscapes in Australia and New Zealand continue to grow upwards and outwards, there’s a corresponding trend driving...

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Basement waterproofing a dry result

Basement waterproofing – 5 things we’ve learned

Thinking about the challenges of basement waterproofing in Australasia

Basement waterproofing – a vexed subject Basement waterproofing has become a rather vexed subject in the construction industry. The MARKHAM team has been out around...

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Pouring concrete with the perfect concrete admixture

Choosing the Perfect Concrete Admixture?

4 things to consider

For starters, it depends on what you intend the concrete admixture to do for your mix, doesn’t it? Admixtures can be used for Integral waterproofing....

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Basement waterproofing

De-Risking Basement Waterproofing

And the significance of BS8102:2022 for the Australasian construction industry

Sub-grade structural (basement) waterproofing has become a serious issue in the Australasian construction industry. This article does not pretend to be a definitive or exhaustive...

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Revelstoke Ruskin Dam - pre-history before the MARKHAM days

Pre-History! Before the MARKHAM days.

The Ruskin Dam project remains a significant example of the technology we continue to use today.

Here’s a spot of pre-history. The works at the Ruskin Dam, Canada, were not a MARKHAM project. In fact, they were carried out immediately before...

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University of Canterbury Maths & Science Basement - AQURON stopped Hydrostatic Ingress

Leaking Basement at the University of Canterbury

How MARKHAM overcame the failure of a basement tanking system.

Leaking Challenge At the University of Canterbury in Christchurch, NZ, in 1998, the tanking system in the basement of the eight-storey Maths & Science Building...

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