Colorado State University has always used a traditional cast-in-place foundation system for its campus buildings. Since university officials were mostly unfamiliar with shotcrete foundations, the ...

Nearly a decade ago, early in conceptual design for the 230,000-sq-ft infill addition to the American Museum of Natural History in Manhattan, talks with potential contractors made it apparent that ...

The American Shotcrete Association (ASA), an organization whose mission it is to provide training, qualification, certification, education, networks, and leadership to increase the acceptance, quality ...

The American Concrete Institute, through the work of ACI Committee 506, has released ACI PRC-506-22: Shotcrete—Guide. The newly introduced guide provides information on materials and properties of ...

The American Shotcrete Association (ASA) is proud to announce that Ted Sofis (Sofis Company Inc) has been named an ASA Qualified Shotcrete Contractor. ASA’s program recognizes shotcrete contractors ...

The utilization of structural shotcrete for below grade foundation walls has benefits for building developers, above and beyond its performance capabilities. Time savings and material costs are so ...

One of Sydney’s main arterial roads has reopened a day after roofing "bulges" shut lanes for emergency maintenance and brought traffic to a grinding halt. Transport for NSW coordinator general Howard ...

The service life of tunnels today is designed to last at least for one hundred years - in the case of the Brenner basis tunnel it is even 200 years. The problem with this: "The service life is ...