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How to Place Steel Reinforcing in a Concrete Floor Slab

8 Simple steps to throw your concrete slab Building a strong and durable concrete floor slab is essential for any construction project, whether it’s for a residential home, a commercial building, or an industrial site. Steel reinforcing plays a crucial role in providing additional strength to the concrete, ensuring it can withstand the loads and…

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Brick House Foundations Made Easy: A Step-by-Step Guide For Owner-Builders

A Concrete  Foundations Placing Guide Cast Your foundations This guide will help owner-builders to cast the concrete foundations. These foundations are for external brick walls around a new house, or for extensions of an existing house. THE NHBRC (National Homebuilders Association Council) requirements for house foundations: For single-story buildings with tiled or sheeted roofs in stable soil…

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Years After Beirut Collapse: Remembering the Lives Lost

Tientalle inwoners sterf toe gebou ineenstort 20 Januarie 2012: 'n Swak onderhoude woonstelblok wat die tuiste van sowat 50 mense was, het hierdie week soos 'n pak kaarte in Beiroet ineengestort en minstens 25 mense doodgemaak. ’n Tienermeisie en haar ouma, ’n bejaarde man (73), en verskeie arbeiders van Soedan, Egipte, Jordanië en...