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Understanding pH Levels in Concrete for Floor Covering Success
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Choosing the Perfect Concrete Admixture?
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Concrete slabs being poured for pH testing

Understanding pH Levels in Concrete for Floor Covering Success

And a little-known challenge

Ensuring the success of your flooring installations involves more than just skill and precision. It requires a keen understanding of the materials you’re working with,...

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Pouring concrete

Choosing the Perfect Concrete Admixture?

4 things to consider

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

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EPD for the construction industry

EPDs: Benefits to the Construction Industry

What are they, and how do they help?

Introduction to Environmental Product Declarations (EPDs) Environmental Product Declarations (EPDs) are becoming an essential tool in the construction industry, offering architects and contractors valuable insights...

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Why waterproof concrete infrastructure?

Concrete is waterproof already, isn't it? ... isn't it?

Of course, concrete infrastructure will withstand water exposure. After all, concrete’s innate durability is one of the reasons the material is used so extensively in...

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Acid attack on concrete drain in dairy production facility

Hazard Alert! Dairy Production, and Acid Attack – a Challenge for Concrete.

Maybe we should be crying over spilt milk …

How can something as mild as milk be a threat to a substance as tough as concrete? Lactic Acid The slight sweetness of natural milk...

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Estilo basement waterproofing UK

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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Concrete floor slab placement and finishing

Curing, Sealing, and Paying for Something Twice Over

What's going on?

We see a lot of things go on in the concrete construction industry. For example, we see curing compounds go on – and then have...

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Australian mine site - concrete infrastructure needs protection

Struggling with Short Maintenance Cycles?

Take a look at the bigger picture

Caring for concrete structures in extreme environments? Struggling with short-cycle maintenance? There are certain situations where the maintenance of a concrete structure becomes a significant...

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Tolaga Wharf | MARKHAM Marine Project

An old wharf. A challenging environment.

And quite a few practical challenges.

The Structure Tolaga Bay Wharf is a protected historical structure. The wharf was built in the early 1920’s using unwashed aggregates off Napier Beach and...

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NSW RMS bridges were treated with AQURON concrete durability hydrogels

Out of the archives: Protecting rural RMS bridges

Practical method for treating and protecting exposed rural concrete bridge decks

Challenges Under the auspices of RMS in NSW, these four bridges are located through the state’s central west and New England areas. This project was...

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Villa car park, Christchurch | MARKHAM INFRA-TECT Protection

A multi-storey car park for Christchurch

... after the earthquakes

Villa Car Park, constructed in 2015-16 on the corner of Litchfield and Madras Sts in Christchurch NZ, was one of the first multi-storey car parks...

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The Rees Hotel, Queenstown | MARKHAM Corrosion Protection

Durability and Protection for The Rees Hotel

Arresting premature steel corrosion in concrete

“The Rees Hotel Queenstown is a sophisticated five-star hotel situated right on the shores of Lake Wakatipu, in the South Island of New Zealand.” –...

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