A client who was buying a home recently negotiated the repair of two vertical cracks in the poured concrete foundation walls. The repair was supposed to be made using a process called epoxy injection.

Concrete cracks. That’s a fact of construction life that has been with the human race since it began building with concrete three millenia ago. The problem spurred the Romans to develop and perfect a ...

Several days ago, I had a texting exchange with a very smart woman who attends my church. She reached out to me the day before with a photo of water inside her garage and another showing a crack in ...

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Unfortunately, most concrete has a tendency to crack, usually as a result of improper design or poor construction practices. As an overlay installer, you have no control over these factors. You are ...

Infrastructure supports and facilitates our daily lives – think of the roads we drive on, the bridges and tunnels that help transport people and freight, the office buildings where we work and the ...

Researchers have developed bacteria that produce a kind of glue that can "knit together" cracks in concrete structures. Nine students at Newcastle University in the U.K. engineered a microbe to swim ...