Sentence examples for concrete infrastructure from inspiring English sources

"A huge amount of the concrete infrastructure in the world, particularly in the west, was built fairly quickly after the second world war and the type of concrete they used had a lifespan of about 50 years.... so there is a huge opportunity in extending the lifespan of existing concrete infrastructure," says Brewin.

Not just family life, but new work as well: so far, it has drawn the attention of a number of people, including several new clients who are interested in building with concrete infrastructure parts.

The serviceability of the concrete infrastructure, especially bridges, has recently received considerable media attention.

For such important concrete infrastructure, the highest possible durability, reliability and service life would be of vital importance.

Emphasis will be on ageing of concrete infrastructure and the need of research on ageing phenomena will be addressed.

The effectiveness of adaptation measures for new and existing buildings, bridges, and other concrete infrastructure is then assessed.

Durability of concrete infrastructures is highly influenced by crack openings.

The demand for repair and retrofit of aging concrete infrastructures increase over time.

On the other side, concrete infrastructures industry is facing pressing sustainability issues.

Concrete CTE represents the thermal expansion and/or contraction sensitivity of concrete, which highly relates to thermal cracks in concrete infrastructures, such as concrete dams and concrete pavements.

Instead this contribution aims to design a reference model with abstract entities that is able to federate existing concrete infrastructures under one umbrella.