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2019/10.2, October 23 — Organizing Beauty, Assembling Components, Roberto’s World and more
THE ESSENTIAL E-NEWSLETTER FOR WATERSHAPE DESIGNERS, ENGINEERS AND BUILDERS October 23, 2019 www.watershapes.com FEATURE ARTICLE…
Where Concrete Meets Steel
The combination of concrete and steel is the currency of most modern construction, and there's a simple economic explanation for that fact:  The affordability and availability of the basic ingredients of cement, aggregate, water and rebar have made their combination viable for use in countries the world over. Used together, especially when the cementitious product comes in the form of pneumatically applied concrete, reinforced concrete is incredibly flexible and can be used to create almost any shape we might imagine.  And in the case of pneumatic application, those shapes can largely be created without the use of traditional concrete forms.   Indeed, it's a construction matrix that can be used in such a way that the contours of the soil dictate the shape of the structure, giving the watershaper almost unlimited flexibility.  It's even fair to say that