In the wake of progress in infrastructure and industry in Mumbai and rest of the country, the foc... more In the wake of progress in infrastructure and industry in Mumbai and rest of the country, the focus needs to be kept on good quality, durable, speedy and environment-friendly construction for sustainable growth and development. Civil Engineering community’s responsibility towards society concerns safe and enduring infrastructure at minimized life-cycle cost without severely affecting environment. Achievement of overall economy in terms reduced recurring maintenance of structures and sustainability of construction by adopting environment-friendly techniques is the only alternative suitable for modern construction. To achieve this traditional methods of construction will not be sufficient and new technologies especially Ready-Mixed concrete (RMC) will need to be adopted.
In the wake of progress in infrastructure and industry in Mumbai and rest of the country, the foc... more In the wake of progress in infrastructure and industry in Mumbai and rest of the country, the focus needs to be kept on good quality, durable, speedy and environment-friendly construction for sustainable growth and development. Civil Engineering community's responsibility towards society concerns safe and enduring infrastructure at minimized life-cycle cost without severely affecting environment. Achievement of overall economy in terms reduced recurring maintenance of structures and sustainability of construction by adopting environment-friendly techniques is the only alternative suitable for modern construction. To achieve this traditional methods of construction will not be sufficient and new technologies especially Ready-Mixed concrete (RMC) will need to be adopted. Ready-Mixed concrete is concrete manufactured at a central location in highly sophisticated and rigorously controlled plants. In conventional site mix, concreting is done at the mercy of gangs, who manipulate the cement, water and other ingredients of concrete. On the contrary concrete is an engineering material and use of proper design and technical approach can improve performance and optimize the costs. In ready mixed concrete, design as well as the proportions are accurately controlled leading to overall better quality of concrete structures. Durability of structure is improved due to high level of quality control, thereby leading to reduction in lifecycle cost and maintenance free structures. This kind of increase can have a major impact on national economy and optimised utilisation of resources like limestone, energy and industrial by-products. Also, it is an environment friendly technology as it substantially reduces air pollution arising at sites because of handling of cement, aggregates etc. at sites. In view of the above advantages, the rest of the world has adopted RMC as the appropriate technology for construction. There is a need in India as well to consciously promote this industry so as to benefit the development of public and private infrastructure in sustainable manner. In order to achieve speedy, sustainable and economical construction, we as a country should look forward to reviewing our strategies and learn from available experiences abroad to promote RMC and allied industries like bulk cement etc.
In the wake of progress in infrastructure and industry in Mumbai and rest of the country, the foc... more In the wake of progress in infrastructure and industry in Mumbai and rest of the country, the focus needs to be kept on good quality, durable, speedy and environment-friendly construction for sustainable growth and development. Civil Engineering community’s responsibility towards society concerns safe and enduring infrastructure at minimized life-cycle cost without severely affecting environment. Achievement of overall economy in terms reduced recurring maintenance of structures and sustainability of construction by adopting environment-friendly techniques is the only alternative suitable for modern construction. To achieve this traditional methods of construction will not be sufficient and new technologies especially Ready-Mixed concrete (RMC) will need to be adopted.
In the wake of progress in infrastructure and industry in Mumbai and rest of the country, the foc... more In the wake of progress in infrastructure and industry in Mumbai and rest of the country, the focus needs to be kept on good quality, durable, speedy and environment-friendly construction for sustainable growth and development. Civil Engineering community's responsibility towards society concerns safe and enduring infrastructure at minimized life-cycle cost without severely affecting environment. Achievement of overall economy in terms reduced recurring maintenance of structures and sustainability of construction by adopting environment-friendly techniques is the only alternative suitable for modern construction. To achieve this traditional methods of construction will not be sufficient and new technologies especially Ready-Mixed concrete (RMC) will need to be adopted. Ready-Mixed concrete is concrete manufactured at a central location in highly sophisticated and rigorously controlled plants. In conventional site mix, concreting is done at the mercy of gangs, who manipulate the cement, water and other ingredients of concrete. On the contrary concrete is an engineering material and use of proper design and technical approach can improve performance and optimize the costs. In ready mixed concrete, design as well as the proportions are accurately controlled leading to overall better quality of concrete structures. Durability of structure is improved due to high level of quality control, thereby leading to reduction in lifecycle cost and maintenance free structures. This kind of increase can have a major impact on national economy and optimised utilisation of resources like limestone, energy and industrial by-products. Also, it is an environment friendly technology as it substantially reduces air pollution arising at sites because of handling of cement, aggregates etc. at sites. In view of the above advantages, the rest of the world has adopted RMC as the appropriate technology for construction. There is a need in India as well to consciously promote this industry so as to benefit the development of public and private infrastructure in sustainable manner. In order to achieve speedy, sustainable and economical construction, we as a country should look forward to reviewing our strategies and learn from available experiences abroad to promote RMC and allied industries like bulk cement etc.
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