Construction Informer

One part of the country’s flirtation with rebuilding its infrastructure could be a new style of bridge in certain locales. Called a flexible bridge, it is engineered to withstand an 8.0 earthquake.
Engineers at the University of Nevada built and tested a 200 ton model that survived 10 seconds of shaking. Its resilience is attributed to [...]

Nano technology holds a lot of promising developments for construction and at the same time it is presenting some challenges that may end up diluting those promises.
In a recent instance a spray that is made from carbon nanotubes can be applied to bridges at critical points so a sort of early warning system is set [...]

Test The Test Kits: That’s what we count on Consumer Reports for and recently they did. You might be surprised to know that some kits just don’t test what they are supposed to test for, very well. For radon detection there were three short-term kits that were especially “inaccurate, unreliable or both,” according to CR.

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It looks like there is a movement afoot that might help to stimulate new ideas for funding the repair of the nation’s aging infrastructure. This is good news as we wait for the government to start functioning again and taking care of things at home.
The American Society of Civil Engineers estimates the country needs [...]