DEAR TIM: I’ve got an odd problem. I have concrete spalling on a sidewalk that leads from my concrete driveway to my home. The concrete driveway and sidewalk were poured at the same time. The driveway ...
Dear Tim: Some of the concrete walkways on our 100-acre island association development are disintegrating. The top surface is crumbling. Other concrete adjacent to it, poured at the same time, is in ...
Hawaiʻi’s rainy seasons may bring paradise, but they also bring unique challenges to homeowners: concrete spalling. We went to an active work site to speak with Jonny Santo Tomas from Structural ...
Today on Living808, Kelly went back on a Stuctural Systems job site to address critical safety concerns with Lance Luke, National Building Expert from Construction Management Inspection LLC, and Jonny ...
The town of Surfside received a required 40-year inspection report for the Champlain Towers South 16 hours after the beachside building’s catastrophic failure. An October 2018 inspection report found ...
Because standards are intentionally conservative for most projects, but new design methods are changing, project-specific design optimization is required to provide safe, cost-effective, and ...
The engineer tasked to survey the building for its 40-year recertification found “abundant concrete cracking and spalling” as well as failed waterproofing below the pool deck that was causing “major ...