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Color and Texture in Architectural Concrete
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Item Code: SP021
Date of Publication: 1995 Revised
Price: $15.00
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This PCA classic shows how to achieve great color and texture in concrete walls, both cast-in-place and precast. Copiously illustrated in full color. Explores the potential for enhancing concrete structures with white and pigmented concretes, exposed aggregate surfaces, and decorative as-cast textures achieved with a variety of form liner systems. Discusses gap grading, materials properties, aggregate exposure methods, and construction practices essential to achieving optimum results with each of these techniques. This publication is also found on CD028 and DVD021.
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Efflorescence in Concrete
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Item Code: LB19
Date of Publication: 2005
Price: $10.00
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Efflorescence is a deposit of white salts left on a surface when a solution containing the salts leaches from concrete or masonry and then evaporates. The references in this PCA Library Bibliography address the formation, prevention, and removal of efflorescence, and include journal articles, conference papers, and reports gathered from searches of the Library’s collection and various online databases. Summaries are provided where the items were available.
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Exploring Color and Texture
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Item Code: PA020
Date of Publication: 1966
Price: $0.00
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This classic 1966 publication remains one of the best resources in the category of modern architectural concrete. Pioneering work into decorative concrete finishes is described through a detailed account of architectural panels built in 1962 and displayed outdoors for four decades at the PCA campus. Constructed by methods that are suitable for both precast and cast-in-place construction, the panels (about 60 of them) are described by constituent materials, mix proportions, and surface treatments (including form liners in their earliest versions).
Filled with color photographs, this publication serves as visual guide, design handbook, and construction manual to specifiers, architects, and contractors alike.
(NOTE: This file is 8.462MB and may take a long time to download.)
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Making Concrete Garden Ornaments
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Item Code: LT273
Date of Publication: 2001
Price: $17.95
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This colorful book is a feast for the eyes—a pictorial gallery of imaginative, whimsical, artistic concrete objects for the garden. It is also a “how-to” book, with clearly-presented instructions for making each object, as well as a discussion on the fundamentals of concrete. If some projects are a bit daunting for a novice, there are others that are equally manageable. Projects include planting containers, obelisks, sculpture, mosaic stepping stones, chairs, and more. Published by Lark Books.
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Mixing and Handling White Cement Concrete
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Item Code: IS530
Date of Publication: 2002
Price: $0.00
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Ready-mixed concrete made with white cement requires attention to detail for consistent results. This brief technical sheet provides tips to improve the production of white cement concrete. Read about the key steps, such as separate storage facilities and clean mixing and handling equipment.
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Permeable Interlocking Concrete Pavements, 3rd Edition
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Item Code: LT155
Date of Publication: 2002
Price: $24.00
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Permeable interlocking concrete pavements offer an environmentally friendly way of providing long lasting, beautiful pervious walks and driveways. This guide provides background and design specifications for construction and maintenance of permeable pavement made with concrete pavers. Assists designers on using best management practice for control of storm water runoff and nonpoint source water pollution.
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Shades of Gray, Sands of Time: Images of Concrete Construction in Days Past
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Item Code: CD061
Date of Publication: 2005
Price: $35.00
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This collection of over 900 black and white photographs illustrates the building of our nation in the last century, the role of concrete in the process and provides glimpses of life in that era. These historical photographs illustrate concrete construction and equipment, including buildings and bridges, highways and streets, and other types of concrete structures under construction. Of special interest are several hundred images of machinery used in concrete construction: paving machines, earthmoving equipment, cranes, buckets, buggies and other "tools of the trade." Of these, there are 144 pictures showing vintage ready mix trucks, from the earliest models to those used in the fifties and sixties.
Industry professionals and observers, teachers and students, and people interested in historical Americana will find this a valuable resource in preparing papers, PowerPoint presentations, and simply for study.
All images are presented in high-resolution quality (1536 x 1045 pixels or higher).
Some of the searchable categories include: Airport construction; Building construction; Batch plants; Bridge construction; Buckets; Buggies; Mixers; Cranes; Dump trucks; Earthmoving machinery; Finishing; Floating; Forms; Vibrating; Pavement construction; Paving machines; Placing; Precasting plants; Ready mix trucks; Ready mixed concrete plants; Resurfacing.
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Trowel Tips: Mortar Color
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Item Code: IS247
Date of Publication: 1995
Price: $20.00
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Know how to achieve desired mortar color in masonry construction. This 6-page full-color publication explains and ilustrates how color is perceived and how various factors influence mortar color. Includes tips on controlling key variables to assure consistent mortar color. (Printed copies sold in packages of 50.)
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