Infrastructure Projects - Construction Technology
A Practical Guide to Construction Techniques and Practice
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There are relatively small amounts of pavement poured on any particular day. The setup here is very labor-intensive. The equipment here is modest in size. When the concrete is deposited, it's placed directly over that cradle of dowels, because if you just kept advancing the concrete from One Direction, it would push up against those bars and certainly shift them off location. They're careful to place concrete right over the top of the bars and make sure that cradle Is anchored in place. |
![]() You can see the laborer on the right. He is advancing the screed by hand. There's a cable, and he's just a moving it along the cable. The concrete is relatively stiff. That is very desirable, but it does make it difficult to move the concrete around. You can understand why there's always pressure to add more water, make the concrete more flowable, which makes it a little easier on these guys who have to shovel it over the full width of the forms. |