Formwork Resources

Crews pour in the rain across this province all winter, and rain landing on fresh concrete is usually not what ruins a pour. What ruins it is water worked into the surface by a finisher, water added at the truck to keep a stiffening load moving, and water standing in the forms before the concrete…

Forms come off when the concrete can carry its own weight plus whatever is going on it next. They do not come off because a set number of days has passed. Every argument on site about when to remove concrete forms is really an argument about one thing: whether the concrete has taken over the…

Reusable formwork usually makes more sense when the structure repeats enough to spread setup time, handling, and system cost across multiple pours. Traditional plywood formwork usually makes more sense when the geometry is irregular, the scope is short, or the crew needs more freedom to adapt in the field. If you want to compare those…

On cast-in-place concrete projects, the terms shoring, falsework, and reshoring often appear in drawings, scopes, and site conversations. While they are related, they refer to different stages of temporary structural support during a concrete slab cycle. Falsework supports formwork and freshly placed concrete before the structure can carry its own load. Reshoring is installed after…