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Precast prestressed concrete enjoys wide use in all types of residential structures; particularly multiple units where the repetitive use of standard components manufactured in a factory can be fully utilized.
The significant benefits of superior fire resistance, sound control, durability and low maintenance, owners and designers alike recognize rapid construction [...]

An Indiana producer that made its name in high-margin, custom precast units for an industry hit harder than most since 2001 has staked its future on product diversification. Hartford Concrete Products Inc. of Hartford City remains among key players in controlled environment vaults (at or below grade) and manholes for telecommunications customers. But thanks to [...]

In fabricating area, having qualified stuffs is a must to support long lasting production. For example as the main plastic used as the top of bottle, plastic pipe and many more plastic based ingredients production stuffs. Thermoplastic, the main row material for plastic made products or at least as the additional stuff, is a plastic [...]

Sci-Tech Encyclopedia: Precast concrete
Concrete that has been cast into a form which is later incorporated into a structure. A concrete structure may be constructed by casting the concrete in place on the site, by building it of components cast elsewhere, or by a combination of the two. Concrete cast in other than its final position [...]

Biologists at UC San Diego working with colleagues in Europe reported in Nature that rising concentrations of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere may not lead to greater photosynthetic activity and carbon sequestration by plants as atmospheric ozone pollutants increase.
Media Contact: Kim McDonald, 858-534-7572, kmcdonald@ucsd.eduCalifornia researchers plan to make alcohol fuel in a novel way that [...]

Stem Cell research at UC San Diego got an additional boost from a $2.8 million Shared Research Laboratory Grant funded in 2007 by the California Institute for Regenerative Medicine (CIRM) supports the creation of a new 2,775 square-foot satellite core facility in UC San Diego’s Jacobs School of Engineering. The laboratory will build on the [...]

UC San Diego engineers have launched a series of earthquake tests on a structure approximating a parking garage. The 1 million-pound precast concrete structure possesses the largest footprint of any structure ever tested on an earthquake simulator in the United States.
This test has a very high priority for the construction design industry because during the [...]

Seeking to capitalize on the potential of a new generation of multi-functional nanoscale devices and special materials built on the scale of individual molecules, UC San Diego has established a new Department of NanoEngineering within its Jacobs School of Engineering effective July 1. Undergraduate and graduate students will learn from an interdisciplinary team of professors [...]

Electrical engineers at the Jacobs School are working on very high efficiency photovoltaic devices that may lead to more economical solar energy. In November 2007, UC San Diego received $885,000 from the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) – part of a recent $21 million DOE investment in next generation photovoltaic technology that aims at [...]

UC San Diego researchers have pioneered a more accurate approach for predicting the risk of breast cancer metastasis in individual patients and described the technique in Molecular Systems Biology. The researchers took advantage of new protein interaction databases and identified networks of genes from breast cancer patients – rather than individual genes – that can [...]