Concrete Standard Reworked to be More Designer-Friendly

Certification ensures that individuals have been trained to install adhesive anchors that are subject to sustained tension in difficult orientations, French explains. Other requirements include product qualification, which includes a battery of product tests to determine the strengths of the adhesive anchors in a variety of situations and environments. In addition, the tests provide information on the sensitivity of the anchors to installation, said French.

With the 2014 revamp under way, “we would not have published a whole code this year, if not for the addition of the adhesive-anchor requirements,” said Poston, who thinks the ACI 318-14 effort will pay off. “We think the 2014 code will be stable for a long time.”

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Nadine M. Post, ENR's editor-at-large for buildings, is an award-winning journalist with 45 years of experience covering trends, issues, innovations, controversies and challenging projects. Post has written about many industry giants, including 10 ENR Award of Excellence winners. And she has covered disasters, failures and attacks, including the 1993 bombing and the 2001 destruction of the World Trade Center. Project stories include the redevelopment of the World Trade Center; the 828-meter-tall Burj Khalifa; Los Angeles’ Disney Concert Hall; and Seattle's Bullitt Center and Rainier Square Tower. In 1985, Post wrote McGraw-Hill's book Restoring the Statue of Liberty (1986) for the restoration’s architects—Richard S. Hayden and Thierry W. Despont.

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