Where Concrete Meets Steel

摘要

The combination of concrete and steel is the currency of most modern construction, and there's a simple economic explanation for that fact: The affordabil-ity and availability of the basic ingredients of cement, aggregate, water and re-bar have made their combination viable for use in countries the world over. Used together, especially when the ce-mentitious product comes in the form of pneumatically applied concrete, reinforced concrete is incredibly flexible and can be used to create almost any shape we might imagine. And in the case of pneumatic application, those shapes can largely be created without the use of traditional concrete forms. Indeed, it's a construction matrix that can be used in such a way that the contours of the soil dictate the shape of the structure, giving the watershaper almost unlimited flexibility. It's even fair to say that pneumatically applied concrete, properly reinforced with steel, has made the true art of watershaping possible - especially when we're discussing inground pools and spas.