Pour

How it is used

An everyday site verb: concrete is poured, a slab is poured, and teams plan, delay or finish a pour. Large slabs are split into several pours, with construction joints between them.

Example sentences

1. We're pouring the roof slab on Friday if the weather stays dry.

2. The pour took nine hours and used 400 cubic metres of concrete.

Common collocations

• pour concrete
• pour a slab
• concrete pour
• continuous pour
• pour sequence

Related terms

• concreteA building material made by mixing cement, water, sand and gravel. It is placed while wet and hardens into a strong, stone-like mass.
• formworkA temporary mould, usually made of timber, plywood or steel, that holds fresh concrete in the required shape until it is strong enough to support itself.
• ready-mix concreteConcrete that is batched at a plant to a set recipe and delivered to site in truck mixers, ready to pour.
• curingKeeping newly placed concrete moist and at a suitable temperature for several days so that the cement keeps reacting and the concrete reaches its full strength.
• slabA flat, horizontal concrete element that forms a floor or a roof. It carries the loads on its surface and passes them to beams, walls or columns.

More terms: Concrete and Steel

• reinforced concrete
• rebar
• cement
• aggregate
• structural steel
• weld
• compressive strength
• slump test
• concrete cover