What’s Common About a Concrete Floor and a Car’s Cruise Control?
The answer is a stretch of the imagination, but here goes. Concrete is a mix of cement, sand, aggregate, and . . . water. As…
The answer is a stretch of the imagination, but here goes. Concrete is a mix of cement, sand, aggregate, and . . . water. As…
Hurricane Season is Upon Us We may see more hurricanes than we normally do this hurricane season. That’s the recent prediction from the National Oceanic…
It’s most likely an undeniable fact — a storage tank will one day need cleaning. And when that storage tank holds mixed acids, the crew…
Galvanized steel has become one of the most important construction materials used everywhere today because of its durability. It’s history dates back over 150 years.…
Small mistakes, big consequences The electrician that installed the lighting didn’t mean to leave wire nuts on the bar joists. The HVAC installer forgot about…
Municipal water supplies treated by public and private water facilities make water safe to drink and pleasant to taste. To produce water that is pure…
It is a series of steps to get our food, produced on the farm, to our kitchen table. At about any step along the way,…
High humidity in the southeast can be rough during the heat of the summer. Not only is it a challenge to keep yourself cool and…
Think back to great grandma’s homemade lye soap. The lye, made from soaking wood ashes left over from cooking and heating, is a very alkaline…
Similarities aside, iron and steel are two very different materials. Iron is the most abundant of all metals and is found throughout the universe, including…