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 ...

Steel reinforcing bar and mesh is about to run short in New Zealand, an industry leader says - but the CEO of one of the industry's major players challenges that prediction. Building Industry ...

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Euro Corp and Brilliance Steel, which stopped selling steel mesh products because of a Commerce Commission investigation, are both conducting independent re-tests of their stock to ensure compliance ...

As the demand for more sustainable construction grows and raw material shortages like steel continue to be a challenge, fiber-reinforced concrete has become an increasingly popular choice for flatwork ...

Reinforcing steel and ribbed reinforcement bars (rebars) are essential to civil engineering, forming a category of key structural materials which, in the case of concrete-reinforcing steel, are ...