While many of us might think that concrete structures such as bridges simply stand unaided for decades at a time, the fact is that they require maintenance as often as once every five years. An ...

Q. Tim, I’m flummoxed. I’m about to build a large detached garage. The plans call for a 10-inch-thick by 20-inch-wide poured concrete footing with two ½-inch steel bars that run continuously in the ...

Those gray bumpy rods are ½-inch steel reinforcing bars that will strengthen a garage footing. The contractor now needs to put supports under them so about 3 or 4 inches of concrete separates the rods ...

PLATTSBURGH -- Jeffords Steel has a new piece of equipment that has drastically reduced the amount of time it takes to cut precise lengths of steel rebar. Jeffords Vice President and Chief Financial ...

The Concrete Reinforcing Steel Institute (CRSI) recently released its newly updated 10th edition of Placing Reinforcing Bars and second edition of Field Inspection of Reinforcing Bars. The 18 heavily ...

THETFORD MINES, QC, March 11, 2026 /PRNewswire/ - Pultrall Inc., the North American manufacturer of V-ROD® fiberglass rebar, a leader in composite concrete reinforcement solutions, is proud to ...

The US manufacturer of the trademarked V-ROD fibreglass rebar Pultrall has launched a new 127,000-square-foot production facility in Edon, Ohio. Primarily dedicated to the manufacturing of V-ROD ...