As part of serviceability limit state, cracks within reinforced concrete structural elements are typically required to be controlled down...

As of 12th December 2018, CIRIA guide C766 has come on live. As one of its first practical users, I posted a previous blog post had a...

A brief preview of CIRIA C766 which has replaced C660

Sprayed concrete has wide-spread use in temporary surface stabilisation and sometimes also used as permanent works. Its field of...

If normal concrete is like a stew, then self-compacting concrete is like a soup. I have some first-hand experience of using...

My previous post on this topic (https://shensivictor.wixsite.com/main/blog/crack-control-of-concrete-1) explained the two types of...

Crack control of concrete using reinforcement to achieve water-tightness Concrete is like a cranky toddler. It needs a lot of love and...