White Concrete Shutters Front Brazilian University Building

White Concrete Shutters Front Brazilian University Building

A covered street cuts through this new university campus building in northern Brazil designed by Rede Arquitetos, Croquis Projetos and Neudson Braga, providing a shaded and breezy area for students to socialise between classes. The building expands the Universidade...
Sound Transit Installing Light Rail Track on Floating Bridge

Sound Transit Installing Light Rail Track on Floating Bridge

Sound Transit’s Blue Line trains won’t travel across Interstate 90 from Seattle to Bellevue until 2023, but the effort to engineer how light rail will make the trip across a floating bridge — for the first time ever, anywhere — has been ongoing for years. And now...
How Can Climate Change Impact Canadian Concrete Infrastructure?

How Can Climate Change Impact Canadian Concrete Infrastructure?

According to an engineer and researcher at the B.C. Institute of Technology (BCIT), global climate change is expected to lead to the increased deterioration of concrete infrastructure in Canada in the future. Sudip Talukdar, civil engineering program coordinator in...
Replace or Resurface: When to Spruce it Up or Start from Scratch

Replace or Resurface: When to Spruce it Up or Start from Scratch

Concrete is one of the most widely used and durable materials available in the construction industry, but it still has its limitations. Exposure to a harsh environments such as freeze-thaw cycles, chemicals used for melting ice and heavy equipment traffic can cause...
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