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Entries for February 2025
Jim Klinger, Concrete Construction Specialist
The Voice Newsletter February 2025
Full Disclosure: Anyone who has cast ice cubes in their kitchen freezer can confirm there is an unseen side effect that occurs during the transformation of liquid water into solid ice--namely a substantial increase in volume. Material science textbooks say that--under certain boundary conditions-- a vo...
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Michael Hernandez, Technical Director
The Voice Newsletter February 2025
Its February, a polar vortex is dropping in and the local (Denver) forecast high temperature for 2 days from today is 14F. No placing exterior concrete in that. Most batch plants here shut down at 20F. Back in my operations days a few yards ago that sounds like a great day for either catching up on office paperwork,...
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