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QUICKLINKS: Please select Concrete Vault Concrete Bookshop Fingertips (FAQS) Magazine Search Industry Directory       Book of the month   Cementitious Materials This Report covers the use of the following cementitious materials, when used in concrete, ground granulated blastfurnace slag (ggbs), fly ash, limestone fines, and silica fume. 70 Pages, Published December 2011.   Industry news •  A ´sweet´ approach to carbon reduction •  Contractor wanted for new £80m tube line •  Southampton Uni wants £20m student digs partner •  Redrow restarts Aldgate tower •  University team develop concrete cancer cure •  Kier buys Stewart Milne construction operations •  PFI school pay tied to green goals •  Funding cut for UK-Chinese ´eco-city´project   Forthcoming industry events •  Young Researchers´ Forum •  Precast 2012 •  Annual General Meeting N.I. Region - Malone Golf Club •  Corrosion Prevention Seminars - 2012 (Free half •  Protecting our Assets - How to stop Corrosion •  RC Detailing to Eurocode 2 •  Design of Burj Kalifi foundations - joint event with IStructE •  Annual General Meeting •  Concrete Technology Training Day •  Non-Destructive Investigation of Buildings and Structures •  Concrete Basements - Free evening seminar •  Concrete on view •  Introduction to RC Detailing •  Training Day 1 •  Bond in Concrete 2012: Bond, Anchorage, Detailing 4th International Symposium •  Training Day 2 •  Golf Day 20 June 2012 •  Getting on with SuDS, the National SuDS Conference •  Defects and deterioration of concrete - causes, prevention and remedies   Top 20 Concrete @ your Fingertips 1. Pad and Strip Foundations 2. Slump test 3. Example of U value calculation 4. Contiguous Bored Piles/Secant Piles 5. Friction between elements 6. Floated and trowelled finishes 7. Consistence tolerance - slump test 8. In situ concrete suspended floors 9. Trench-Fill Foundations 10. Question on High Alumina Cement (HAC) 11. Wimpey No-fines concrete 12. No-fines concrete 13. Removal of Formwork 14. Cold Joints 15. Heavyweight concrete 16. Importance of aggregate grading 17. Design of flat slab floors 18. Tunnel-form construction 19. Wood-wool Slabs 20. Concrete finishes – general

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