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11 Ideas for Sprucing Up Your Boring Concrete Dorm Walls
W hen I was preparing for my first year of college, I had big plans to make my dorm room feel chic, cozy, and homey. However, ...
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Bone-like, hollow concrete design makes it 5.6 times stronger
Human femurs have inspired a new cement-based construction material that is multiple times stronger than traditional concrete. But the bone-like design doesn’t get its resiliency from any new ...
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Buying a House on a Concrete Slab: Advantages and Disadvantages
Pros and Cons of Buying a House on a Concrete Slab Mark Cussen, CMFC, has 13+ years of experience as a writer and provides financial education to military service members and the public.
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C-CRETE Technologies Pours World's First Granite-Based Concrete - Free of Portland Cement and CO2 Emissions - at Manhattan Supertall Building
The July 8 event was a 12 cubic yard pour of granite concrete for a topping slab located on the upper lobby of the supertall. (A supertall is a skyscraper between roughly 1,000 and 2,000 feet tall.) ...
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Irish farmer finds near 60-pound slab of ancient bog butter on his land by ‘pure luck’
That's how Micheal Boyle's story went. Boyle was conducting work on his farm in County Donegal, when he found what turned out to be an ancient slab of bog butter. In ancient times, dairy or animal ...
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Testing 2024’s Best Concrete Sealers to Protect Against Stains
It is significantly harder than acrylic, but it does not allow trapped moisture to escape from the concrete slab. These durable sealers are often used for floors in high-traffic areas, such as ...
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Art and Design
The Met Museum returned an ancient cup, assembled from fragments, to Italy in 2022 after investigators found it had been looted. Now a second has been returned after a similar determination. By ...