Concrete

Concrete is a composite material composed of fine and coarse aggregate bonded together with a fluid cement (cement paste) that hardens (cures) over time. In the past, lime based cement binders, such as lime putty, were often used but sometimes with other hydraulic cements, such as a calcium aluminate cement or with Portland cement to form Portland cement concrete (named for its visual resemblance to Portland stone). Many other non-cementitious types of concrete exist with other methods of binding aggregate together, including asphalt concrete with a bitumen binder, which is frequently used for road surfaces, and polymer concretes that use …

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CSA: Canadian Standards Association · 17 May 2024 English

Annual Report 2023-2024 Making an impact for a safer, healthier and more sustainable Canada For more than 100 years, CSA Group has led the development of standards in Canada, and …

patients and staff. CSA/ANSI R118, CarbonStar®: Concrete carbon intensity quantification and verification verification of the carbon intensity in a unit of concrete, including any carbon that is permanently sequestered sequestered during the production of the concrete and/or its input materials. M A K I N G A N I M P A C


CSA: Canadian Standards Association · 17 May 2024

As we continue to grow and expand, we will strengthen the environmental lens we apply to the design and development of our operations with a focus on minimizing our use …

R118:24, CarbonStar®: Requirements for Digital Concrete Carbon Intensity Infrastructure and Digital Health in Canadian Health Care Facilities Cement and concrete manufacturing is associated with significant carbon over the past several years, with virtual and concrete products with low care, big health data, and other digital health care technologies to support types of concrete products in a consistent current and future needs search=all~~CSA/ANSI R118:24, CarbonStar%E2%93%87: Concrete Carbon Intensity Quantification and Verification


UCP: University of Calgary Press · 15 May 2024 English

The Briscoe-MacDougall family retire to their lakeside cabin each summer. This annual vacation is at time to unwind and refresh, a time to relax away from the hustle and bustle …

absolute: it was a distended space that had no concrete shape, and into which he saw himself falling—or


UBC: UBC Press · 15 May 2024 English

The old neo-liberal economic theory that deregulation will solve the problem of unaffordable housing is being contradicted by reality, with ugly consequences for social cohesion, mental health, urban vitality, and …

the right of land use that these practices made concrete. Thus complex interactions were required by early


CHB: Coach House Books · 14 May 2024 English

CBC BOOKS: 2024 SPRING FICTION PREVIEW A queer writer travelling through India can't escape the regrets of his past, nor the impending ruin of his present. "I am leaving for …

fall hard. My helmeted head bangs against the concrete with a smack. As I fall, I grieve for the body:


AUP: Athabasca University Press · 14 May 2024 English

Political activist ethnography is a research strategy that reveals how ruling regimes are organized so activists and social movements can fight them. This volume adopts an approach to inquiry that …

conceptual and theoretical explanations to the concrete, sensuous world of people’s actual practices


MQUP: McGill-Queen's University Press · 14 May 2024 English

Every lover of music finds themselves, at privileged moments, in ecstasy – certain that what they are hearing has captured, somehow, an incontrovertible truth. Bach’s Architecture of Gratitude explores this …

establishes a template of possible experience the concrete details of which are useful to know in advance


MQUP: McGill-Queen's University Press · 14 May 2024 English

Although he had a short career, German philosopher Friedrich Nietzsche was a prolific writer, publishing seventeen books in the span of seventeen years. Convinced that “style must live,” he focused …

to be irreconcilable. This observation became concrete reality when he completely retired from academic


MQUP: McGill-Queen's University Press · 14 May 2024 English

In Logic in the Wild Patrick Girard presents logic as the guardian of coherence. Logic, Girard argues, finds coherence in the patterns of reasoning shared across science, religion, and everyday …

problem, let’s try another scenario, this time more concrete. You work for security at a public event where


MQUP: McGill-Queen's University Press · 14 May 2024 English

Sleep, and the lack of it, is a public obsession and an enormous everyday quandary. Troubled sleep tends to be seen as an individual problem and personal responsibility, to be …

sleep – a restless half-sleep on a urine-stained concrete floor – is subjected to the further humiliation


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