NPCA Blog: Production

Most manufacturers of precast concrete products use reinforcing steel in their forms simply because they have been told to do […]

Get the most out of concrete’s many excellent benefits with strict attention to proper curing To cure or not to […]

Whenever you have something inspected, there’s a natural tendency to want the inspection to occur at the latest stage of the process in order to measure performance in its final position.

Not all rebar is created equally.

Round manholes are the most widely used maintenance utility structures to provide access to buried pipelines for inspection and cleanout.

Fly Ash – A Hazardous Material? By now, you have probably heard of the controversy brewing about the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency’s (EPA) reclassification of fly ash, a coal combustion byproduct, that would make it a hazardous material. So, why does this matter and what are the facts?

An Open Letter to Professional Engineers, Architects and Specifiers. Will a thicker top slab added to a normal-duty grease interceptor or septic tank be durable enough for heavy loads?

Forces are at Work Beneath the Feet that Must be Reckoned With Before Designing an Underground Structure

How will the new AASHTO loading specifications affect you?

Precast of the future?

Separating the fact from fiction

An admixture is defined as a material other than water, aggregates, hydraulic cementitious material or fiber reinforcement that is used as an ingredient of a cementitious mixture to modify its freshly mixed, setting or hardened properties and that is added to the batch before or during mixing.