Concrete Construction: Methods and Costs is the book that poured the American twentieth century: Halbert Gillette and Charles Hill set out, with engineers’ thoroughness, how concrete was actually mixed, formed, placed and priced — from selecting aggregates to the cost per cubic yard of dams, foundations and bridges.
It is field engineering with the mud still on it, from the first great age of reinforced concrete. Download the free EPUB for construction history at working depth.