That's what I thought at first, however there are no pipes around to stain the beams and the coloring/pattern doesn't seem to match reinforcing leaching (to me anyway). It was a very fine dust almost.
Its just for a proposal at this point. I'm probably going to add in a line item for testing.
Hello All,
Does anybody know why a concrete parking garage beam may be leaching orange efflorescence? I found that multiple of the main framing beams have an orange dust on them, and there are orange drip marks on the ground surface below.
I have a couple theories:
-The project is a LEED...
Hello,
I do not do a lot of work with plate construction and I was helping review a post tension building and had a question on post tension for call outs. I usually see the post tension force in kips, but these plans alternate between kips and klf. Any clues why?
