The Portland Cement Association's Guide to Concrete Homebuilding Systems
The Portland Cement Association's Guide to Concrete Homebuilding Systems

Author: Pieter A. VanderWerf

Publisher: McGraw Hill Professional

Published: 1995

Total Pages: 344

ISBN-13: 9780070670204

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Your one-source guide to Concrete-Based Homebuilding Systems. Residential contractors, architects, and developers will welcome this first total guide to the latest concrete-based homebuilding systems (CBHSs). With lumber costs still on the rise after doubling the early '90s, The Portland Cement Association Guide to Concrete Homes, by Peter VanderWerf and W. Keith Munsel, can deliver, durable, cost-efficient, esthetically pleasing alternative building materials and construction methods. It's all spelled out in an authoritative sourcebook that explains and compares the various types of CBHSs and lists special materials and tools for building them--provides case histories of concrete homes already built and in use--and contains data vital to building professionals who want to learn tomorrow's techniques today.

Portland Cement
Portland Cement

Author: Leslie Struble

Publisher: ICE Publishing

Published: 2011-04-15

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9780727736116

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Updated to reflect the latest BSI standards, this third edition gives an account of cement composition, manufacture, quality assessment, hydration and the resulting microstructure-physical property relationships, and some mechanisms of the chemical degradation of hardened cement paste.