THE STANDARD, OPENLY PUBLISHED.
The full record of the Performance Structural Integrity Protocol. The science behind ASR and concrete cancer. The fly-ash collapse. 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 PSIP-certified work actually documents. Mix design, reinforcement, placement, finishing, curing, acceptance. Each pillar tied to a specific ACI standard and verified at a specific point in the 28-day window.
Read the frameworkThe PSIP standard, broken down.
The full technical breakdown of the certification protocol. What gets documented, when, by whom, and against which acceptance threshold. The institutional record of the work, from Day 0 batch ticket through Day 28 acceptance.
Read the standardConcrete cancer, explained.
What alkali-silica reaction actually is, what it looks like under microscopy, and why it is now the dominant failure mode in residential concrete across the Sun Belt. With the seven-frame 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 specification, aggregate reactivity testing, and the documented field verification protocol that protects against the conditions that produce concrete cancer.
Read the prevention guideThe chemistry crisis is rolling, not closed.
The collapse of Class F fly ash supply from coal-plant closures and what it means for residential concrete chemistry over the next decade. The national context for why PSIP exists right now and not five years from now.
Read the alarmWhy Texas pools are failing.
The legal-precedent anchor case. What residential pool litigation across Texas has documented about ASR failure modes in gunite and shotcrete shells, and why the 2027-2028 bills are arriving on contractors who poured between 2019 and 2024.
Read the caseThe founder. Carlos Reyes.
The origin of the protocol. Why a contractor with 25+ years on the slab 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 the two paths most readers take next.
PSIP is structurally independent of all material suppliers. The protocol scores. The record documents. The dataset is being built. Nothing PSIP publishes carries a financial relationship with any admixture, cement, aggregate, or ready-mix company. References to specific products in PSIP content are field observations by the author, not protocol endorsements.