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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   GRC Practical Fixing Guide Parts 1 & 2 GRC Practical Fixing Guide Parts 1 & 2. Essentially a manual (Part 1) and a visual design aid (Part 2)contains animated presentations and extremely visual diagrammatic representations covering GRC fixing.   Industry news •  Ireland´s biggest-ever concrete pour is Titanic effort •  Fly ash award •  Cracks appear in Berlin Holocaust memorial •  Coal-fired power to win carbon capture grants •  Five in the frame for Hinkley nuclear ground works •  Big hitters line up for first nuclear job •  Bam scoops £600m Somerset BSF job •  Castle Cement fined   Forthcoming industry events •  BAUMA 2010 Expo •  ACI Spring Convention in Chicago •  ICT 2010 Annual Convention •  Sustainability: BES6001 and The Specifiers Perceptions of Sustainability •  Achieving durability in structures •  Self-Healing Concrete •  Back to Basics in Concrete Technology - Training Day •  Half-Day Seminar: EC2 TR68 - Assessment, Design and Repair of Fire damaged Structures •  Concrete in watertight Structures, Glasgow •  GeoDrilling 2010 Conference and Exhibition, exec Peterborough •  Lifecycle Assessment of Construction Products •  Carbon Design •  CISF Conference 2010 and Annual Dinner   Top 20 Concrete @ your Fingertips 1. Slump test 2. Contiguous Bored Piles/Secant Piles 3. No-fines concrete 4. In situ concrete suspended floors 5. Design of flat slab floors 6. ´Basic´ concrete mix design method 7. Pad and Strip Foundations 8. BS 8500 - Concrete 9. Concrete finishes – general 10. Question on High Alumina Cement (HAC) 11. Assessing concrete surface finishes 12. ACI concrete mix design method 13. Slip form systems 14. Trench-Fill Foundations 15. Steel-fibre-reinforced concrete 16. Yield line analysis 17. Wimpey No-fines concrete 18. Figg test 19. Concept design – frames 20. Question on post-war prefabricated houses     Special category members

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