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Introducing the Concrete Society MCS and FCS Qualifying Grades Members of the Society are invited to apply for the qualifying grades which enable members to demonstrate that they have significant knowledge and experience of concrete. Members who qualify for these grades are presented with an official certificate and are entitled to use the letters MCS or FCS after their name. Awards 2010 The Concrete Society Awards initiative now enters its 42nd year! The Awards recognize excellence in the use of concrete for New Structures (both civil engineering and building), Mature structures, and our more recent Concrete Performance award presented for outstanding use of concrete in key critical applications. Please find Entry Forms for the 2010 Awards – with a closing date for submissions of 9 April 2010. We look forward to welcoming your participation in this exciting and well established programme.   Book of the month   Proceedings of the Annual International fib Symposium. London 2009 Proceedings of the Annual International fib Symposium Concrete : 21st Century Superhero, Building a sustainable future, held in London, 22-24 June 2009.   Industry news •  Carbon traders quit emissions market •  Step into sustainability •  Laing O´Rourke set to bring ´robotic´ housing to UK •  Westinghouse picks Shaw/Laing O´Rourke •  CRH fights Secil takeover •  New readymix service •  Dubai tops its troubles with tallest tower •  ‘Building industry needs to give better value for money’   Forthcoming industry events •  Benefits of Thermal Mass in Buildings, Inverness •  How strong is my concrete? New assessment methods for in-situ concrete strength Seminar •  East Midlands Innovation: The Greening of Concrete •  Ecobuild, Earl´s Court, London •  Concrete Training Day •  Annual Concrete Training Day •  Innovations in Concrete Precast, Glasgow •  Design and Construction of Safe and Sustainable High-Rise Structures •  The 3rd International Holcim Forum for Sustainable Construction •  Ferrocement •  BAUMA 2010 Expo •  ACI Spring Convention in Chicago •  ICT 2010 Annual Convention •  Achieving durability in structures •  Self-Healing Concrete •  Concrete in watertight Structures, Glasgow •  GeoDrilling 2010 Conference and Exhibition, exec Peterborough •  Lifecycle Assessments of Construction Products •  Lifecycle Assessment of Construction Products •  Concrete Training Day   Top 20 Concrete @ your Fingertips 1. Slump test 2. Contiguous Bored Piles/Secant Piles 3. ´Basic´ concrete mix design method 4. Pad and Strip Foundations 5. In situ concrete suspended floors 6. No-fines concrete 7. Design of flat slab floors 8. BS 8500 - Concrete 9. Heavyweight concrete 10. Yield line analysis 11. Slip form systems 12. Trench-Fill Foundations 13. Removal of Formwork4287601380 14. The basic hardening process 15. Steel-fibre-reinforced concrete 16. In-situ core strength compared to standard cube strength 17. Fresh concrete – European Standards 18. Consistence tolerance - slump test 19. Friction between elements 20. Question on post-war prefabricated houses     Special category members

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