THE STANDARD, OPENLY PUBLISHED.
The full record of the Performance Structural Integrity Protocol. The science behind ASR and concrete cancer. The shrinking fly ash supply. The six pillars of the protocol. The technical standard breakdown. The founder's origin. Eight doctrine pages, published in the open, dated, cite-able.
The documented gap. Why American concrete is failing.
ASTM and ACI publish the standards. The committees write the rules. No institution documents whether the rules were actually followed on the slab in front of your house on the day it was poured. PSIP exists to close that gap. Start here.
Read the foundational doctrineThe six pillars of the protocol.
What the record holds on every certified pour, in six parts: mix design, reinforcement, base protection, base pre-hydration, placement and final surface, and the signed closeout packet. Where a part touches a published ACI document, the pillar names it as ACI's. These six are the minimum a PSIP record holds. A contractor can record more, and the record shows everything he recorded.
Read the frameworkThe PSIP standard, broken down.
What the PSIP record holds at each stage of a job, who does what, and why each element exists. PSIP sets no numbers; the published standards and the project documents do.
Read the standardConcrete cancer, explained.
What alkali-silica reaction actually is, and what it looks like under microscopy. With the microscopy series from interfacial transition zone to end-stage failure.
Read the scienceHow to prevent ASR.
Mix design strategies, supplementary cementitious materials, low-alkali cement, and aggregate reactivity testing, as the published standards describe them.
Read the prevention guideSupply shrank. Demand grew.
The Class F fly ash supply shrank as coal plants closed: 4,273 megawatts of Texas coal retired in 2018 and 2.6 GW nationwide in 2025, while fly ash used in concrete rose in 2024. What it means for residential concrete chemistry, and the national context for why PSIP exists right now and not five years from now.
Read the numbersWhy Texas pools are failing.
The Texas case study. ASR in Central Texas pool shells after the 2018 fly ash supply change, and what a record of the mix would have answered.
Read the caseThe founder. Carlos Reyes.
The origin of the protocol. Why a contractor with thirty years in construction decided the industry needed a documented standards body, and how PSIP got from a Nashville job site to an institutional record.
Read the recordPSIP documents at the pour, not at the failure.
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Where do you go from here?
The library is open access. No email required to read. But if you are reading because you have a decision to make, here are two paths.
No material supplier can pay for a say in PSIP: not in the standard, not in a record, not in a certification. The protocol certifies. The record documents. The dataset is being built. References to specific products in PSIP content are field observations by the author, not protocol endorsements.