Cement & concrete

The updated, second edition of the Cement & Concrete Institute’s much acclaimed reference book, Fundamentals of Concrete, is now available from the institute.  The book – first published in 1998 – is intended for students of engineering, building management, quantity surveying, architecture and other practitioners who require a working knowledge of concrete. Add a comment...

Summercon, one of Gauteng’s biggest and busiest home-building companies, has appointed the Echo Group as “exclusive supplier” of hollow-core concrete floor slabs for its sectional title forward development programme. Summercon operations director Simon Buys says, “We have tried other hollow-core slabs, but in the end we found that Echo’s combination of product quality, design exp...

In a series of seminars organised jointly by the Concrete Manufacturers Association (CMA) and the Concrete Society towards the end of last year, world-renowned precast concrete expert, Dr Kim S Elliott, and Echo Prestress technical director, Daniel Petrov, addressed the use of modern precast concrete technologies in construction. Vice president of the Floor Slab Division of the CMA, Moniqu...

The Concrete Manufacturers Association (CMA) has updated its Township Roads paving brochure. The brochure is compiled primarily for non-technical decision makers in national and local government and sets out the benefits of using concrete block paving (CBP) for township roads.  CMA director, Hamish Laing, says that although CBP has been used extensively for township roads, the potential f...