Q. Tim, my builder is telling me to forget about using reinforcing steel or mesh in my concrete driveway and patio. He says he’ll just add an inch of thickness and that’s good enough. What’s your ...

Q: My builder is telling me to forget about using reinforcing steel or mesh in my concrete driveway and patio. He says he'll just add an inch of thickness and that's good enough. Would you go to the ...

Saint-Gobain Technical Fabrics recently introduced FibaCrete Concrete Reinforcement Mesh, an alkali-resistant fiberglass material designed specially to fortify concrete applications. It is ideal as a ...

Ammar Mirjan walks through a sprawling industrial hall in Birr in the canton of Aargau, where Brown, Boveri & Cie. once manufactured turbines. The huge cranes under the striking shed roof are not part ...