Q. Tim, I’m flummoxed. I’m about to build a large detached garage. The plans call for a 10-inch-thick by 20-inch-wide poured concrete footing with two ½-inch steel bars that run continuously in the ...

TROY – A pair of professors at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute are working with researchers to develop hemp-based rebar, which is typically made as a steel reinforcement, that can be used for cement.

Sam Mushaw, president of Dimension Fabricators, walks past stacks of steel rebar concrete reinforcement rods on Feb. 20 at Dimension Fabricators in Glenville. Sam Mushaw, president of Dimension ...

Concrete is a very durable material. Fine examples of its first structural use by the Romans are still standing, and concrete is now probably the most widely used building material in the world.

Government’s dream of providing housing for all may become reality sooner than later following research work by some researchers in the Dept. of Civil and Environmental Engineering, University of ...

Home builders across the country have raised the alarm over the prevalence of substandard reinforcement bars, popularly known as iron rods, in the market.In what they described as fraud in the “steel ...

During the survey period (December 23–December 29), both the operating rate and capacity utilization rate of rebar rolling lines in the central China region increased, while the operating rate and ...