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Concrete Pour at Night
Photo Credit: Alex Mead When pouring concrete contractors cannot simply begin or end placing concrete at any given location in a structure during a given pour. Due to many reasons, including rebar...
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Wood I-Members
Photo Credit: Alex Mead This is a stack of wood I-Joists used to span long distances between supports in a wood frame structure. Wood I-Joists are typically made of solid wood flanges, the two fat...
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Slate Roof
Photo Credit: Alex Mead Pictured here is a slate roof on a church in Ann Arbor, Michigan. Slate roofs are considered by many to be the foremost type of roof that a building can have. The reason is...
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Rivets and Carnegie Steel
Photo Credit: Alex Mead This is a regular steel member utilizing rivet construction on a bridge built in 1886. The cool trait about this member, however, is the maker’s mark on the middle. If you look...
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Mag-Crane
Photo Credit: Alex Mead Seen above is a material handler at a metal scrap metal yard. This material handler is in a special category of handlers that are called magcranes. This is due to the fact that...
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Course Aggregate Stockpile
Photo Credit: Alex Mead This may look like a simple pile of gravel, but in reality it is a key ingredient in one of the most widely used building materials in the world; concrete. Concrete is a...
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Rolled Corrugated Pipe
Photo Credit: Alex Mead Seen above is the storage lot of a perforated, corrugated pipe manufacturer in Illinois. For scale purposed the human subject was asked to stand in the photograph. As can be...
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Roof Reinforcement Method
Photo Credit: Jessie Benaglio In Cinque Terre, Italy, five little towns on the north west coast, has rocks laid in a pattern on the roofs. The rocks help hold the shingles on due from the strong winds...
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Flared Concrete Column
Photo Credit: Karl Jansen This is a great example of a flared concrete column. As you can see, the top of the circular column which supports the above structure is flared in a square section. This...
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Before and After Concrete Pour
Photo Credit: Alex Mead Pictured here is a before and after pour picture of a steel-reinforced concrete staircase. The picture on the left clearly shows the inner resteel, or rebars, placed on risers...
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