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Article: Best of Concrete Construction: concrete paths of the past.(Best of Concrete Construction)
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- Concrete Construction
- Article date:
- September 1, 2006
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Some readers may have memories of ducking under their school desks during routine A-bomb drills half a century ago. Others associate the term energy crisis with today's news rather than events of the 1970s. And so it is with concrete trends and technology. A review of article topics from 50 years of CONCRETE CONSTRUCTION, proves that certain ideas and methods persist and are as much a marvel as an archaic oddity today.
Over those years, our primary mission has been to present practical construction and troubleshooting methods, at both the basic and advanced levels. At the same time, these more technical articles are interspersed with information on aesthetic ...