WSJ: Pouring Ice Into Concrete: Builders Adapt to Extreme Heat

[abu afak]

Besides the Temp/weather itself, the effects are already costly.
WSJ's Continuing series on the disruption of AGW/Climate change.
July 25, 2023 - 8:14 am ET

""Roads, bridges and train tracks built to the design standards of the 20th century are buckling from extreme heat gripping the globe. Power grids, buildings and cooling systems are under strain.

Design standards have failed to keep up with a warming climate, say engineering and construction experts who are pushing their clients to invest in solutions to make existing buildings cooler while factoring in the cost of future heat waves.
“The U.S. isn’t prepared for what we’ve had so far, let alone more of it,” said Adam Jaffe, senior materials engineer at Arup, a global design and architecture firm, about extreme heat.

Throughout July, record-setting temperatures have broiled the southern half of the U.S., southern Europe, central China and eastern Asia. The heat has caused scattered power outages in several countries and buckled roads in Utah, Louisiana and Wisconsin, according to local news reports. In Texas, a section of Interstate 10 in Houston and a six-lane state highway south of the city ruptured during 100-plus-degree heat in late June.
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Pouring Ice Into Concrete: Builders Adapt to Extreme Heat

Engineers and architects seek solutions as roads, bridges and train tracks are buckling from extreme heat gripping the globe.

www.wsj.com

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[odanny]

So July looks to be the hottest month in recorded world history. Fires, floods, droughts, and extreme heat, and still the indoctrination against science by conservative propagandists make the sheep shriek "There is no such thing as climate change, the climate always changes!"

In America, sometimes you cannot fix stupid.

 

[ding]

Besides the Temp/weather itself, the effects are already costly.
WSJ's Continuing series on the disruption of AGW/Climate change.
July 25, 2023 - 8:14 am ET

""Roads, bridges and train tracks built to the design standards of the 20th century are buckling from extreme heat gripping the globe. Power grids, buildings and cooling systems are under strain.

Design standards have failed to keep up with a warming climate, say engineering and construction experts who are pushing their clients to invest in solutions to make existing buildings cooler while factoring in the cost of future heat waves.
“The U.S. isn’t prepared for what we’ve had so far, let alone more of it,” said Adam Jaffe, senior materials engineer at Arup, a global design and architecture firm, about extreme heat.

Throughout July, record-setting temperatures have broiled the southern half of the U.S., southern Europe, central China and eastern Asia. The heat has caused scattered power outages in several countries and buckled roads in Utah, Louisiana and Wisconsin, according to local news reports. In Texas, a section of Interstate 10 in Houston and a six-lane state highway south of the city ruptured during 100-plus-degree heat in late June.
[.....]

Pouring Ice Into Concrete: Builders Adapt to Extreme Heat

Engineers and architects seek solutions as roads, bridges and train tracks are buckling from extreme heat gripping the globe.

www.wsj.com

`

It's just weather, bro.

 

[ding]

So July looks to be the hottest month in recorded world history. Fires, floods, droughts, and extreme heat, and still the indoctrination against science by conservative propagandists make the sheep shriek "There is no such thing as climate change, the climate always changes!"

In America, sometimes you cannot fix stupid.

What's your carbon footprint?

 

[occupied]

Spring and fall barely exist in my part of Florida anymore. The highly productive intervals where the weather is not an issue in construction is getting smaller every year. It's hot as hell from May to Oct. The rest is the frequent wind and rain we call winter. It's rough on a man like me that works outside. Those perfect days for working outside seem to be becoming less frequent.

 

[Matted Joybeard]

It's just weather, bro.

It's just key economic and supply chain infrastructure.

 

[Vastator]

 

[ding]

It's just key economic and supply chain infrastructure.

What is?

 

[Oddball]

 

[Toddsterpatriot]

Besides the Temp/weather itself, the effects are already costly.
WSJ's Continuing series on the disruption of AGW/Climate change.
July 25, 2023 - 8:14 am ET

""Roads, bridges and train tracks built to the design standards of the 20th century are buckling from extreme heat gripping the globe. Power grids, buildings and cooling systems are under strain.

Design standards have failed to keep up with a warming climate, say engineering and construction experts who are pushing their clients to invest in solutions to make existing buildings cooler while factoring in the cost of future heat waves.
“The U.S. isn’t prepared for what we’ve had so far, let alone more of it,” said Adam Jaffe, senior materials engineer at Arup, a global design and architecture firm, about extreme heat.

Throughout July, record-setting temperatures have broiled the southern half of the U.S., southern Europe, central China and eastern Asia. The heat has caused scattered power outages in several countries and buckled roads in Utah, Louisiana and Wisconsin, according to local news reports. In Texas, a section of Interstate 10 in Houston and a six-lane state highway south of the city ruptured during 100-plus-degree heat in late June.
[.....]

Pouring Ice Into Concrete: Builders Adapt to Extreme Heat

Engineers and architects seek solutions as roads, bridges and train tracks are buckling from extreme heat gripping the globe.

www.wsj.com

`

Does all this heat make you itchy?

 

[Oddball]

 

[The Duke]

ZOMG IT'S HOT IN SUMMER!

Yes, this is a hot one, whatcha gonna do?

 

[elektra]

Pouring Ice Into Concrete: Builders Adapt to Extreme Heat

Engineers and architects seek solutions as roads, bridges and train tracks are buckling from extreme heat gripping the globe.

www.wsj.com

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I hope you don't mind abu afuk, I edited out all your hysterics so I could laugh at the pouring ice into concrete joke.

Ice in concrete is a normal practice, to keep it from getting to hot chemically. You should suspect a money motive for anything printed in the WSJ.

The Hoover dam used ice water to cool the concrete.
How was chemical heat caused by setting concrete in the dam dissipated? By embedding more than 582 miles of 1-inch steel pipe in the concrete and circulating ice water through it from a refrigeration plant could produce 1,000 tons of ice in 24 hours. Cooling was completed in March 1935.

 

[CrusaderFrank]

Besides the Temp/weather itself, the effects are already costly.
WSJ's Continuing series on the disruption of AGW/Climate change.
July 25, 2023 - 8:14 am ET

""Roads, bridges and train tracks built to the design standards of the 20th century are buckling from extreme heat gripping the globe. Power grids, buildings and cooling systems are under strain.

Design standards have failed to keep up with a warming climate, say engineering and construction experts who are pushing their clients to invest in solutions to make existing buildings cooler while factoring in the cost of future heat waves.
“The U.S. isn’t prepared for what we’ve had so far, let alone more of it,” said Adam Jaffe, senior materials engineer at Arup, a global design and architecture firm, about extreme heat.

Throughout July, record-setting temperatures have broiled the southern half of the U.S., southern Europe, central China and eastern Asia. The heat has caused scattered power outages in several countries and buckled roads in Utah, Louisiana and Wisconsin, according to local news reports. In Texas, a section of Interstate 10 in Houston and a six-lane state highway south of the city ruptured during 100-plus-degree heat in late June.
[.....]

Pouring Ice Into Concrete: Builders Adapt to Extreme Heat

Engineers and architects seek solutions as roads, bridges and train tracks are buckling from extreme heat gripping the globe.

www.wsj.com

`

Tell China to shut their economy