Ar mian leat Nollaig Shona agus Athbhliain faoi mhaise daoibh go léir.
Wishing you all a Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year from all the team at the Irish Concrete Society.
Our office will be closed from Wednesday 23rd December 2020 until Monday 4th January 2021.
In this seminar we will deal with both the practical aspects of successfully placing concrete during cold weather and look at the damage caused by freezing temperatures to fresh concrete.
10.00 Welcome
10.05 Introduction and General Overview
10.35 Design Options for Cold Weather Concreting
11.05 Site Practice: Planning, Placing, and Curing
11.45 Break
11.55 Sampling and Testing
12.15 Health and Safety Considerations in Cold Weather
Email: events@concrete.ie to book
Covering essential information, this two half-day online course will help all those attending better understand the most used construction material in the world.
Email: events@concrete.ie to book
The Concrete Society NI Region are holding a joint even with ICE and IStructE on 2nd November 2020.
This talk details the five story basement built beneath Claridge’s Hotel in London, carried out with disrupting the hotel operations.
Location: On-line
Speakers: Jim Mackey (McGee), Andy Pye and Alice Blair (Arup)
Time: 18:15 – 19:30 (UK time)
Cost: FOC
To book: ICE Claridge’s Hotel Basement
The winners of the 38th Annual Awards have been announced!
The winners of the 38th Irish Concrete Society Awards will be announced on 23rd October 2020 at 2pm. In anticipation of this announcement, details of all of this year’s competition entries can be viewed here: ICS 38th Annual Awards Entrants Brochure
This Horizon 2020 project aimed to develop (a) an Ultra High Durability Concrete (UHDC) and (b) a Durability Assessment-based Design (DAD) methodology to improve the durability and predict the long-term performance of structures in Extremely Aggressive Exposure (EAE) conditions. The driving principle of this project is that the long-term behaviour of such structures can benefit from the use of high performance materials. This is achieved within the framework of durability-based design approaches by advancing UHPC/UHPFRC through the incorporation of tailored Nano scale constituents which focus on stimulating autogenous self-healing. New design concepts are being validated through long-term monitoring in six full-scale pilot projects, selected as representative of cutting edge economy sectors, such as green energy, blue growth and conservation of reinforced concrete heritage.
This presentation will be of interest to all those who are involved in the design, specification and construction of concrete. Those who should attend include consulting engineers, engineers in contracting firms, specialist concrete sub-contractors, concrete and precast concrete producers, concrete technologists, and precast concrete designers.
13.00 Welcome and Introduction
13.05 Advanced Cement Based Composites: an Asset for Civil Engineering to Contribute to Societal and Economical Challenges. The Approach of the H2020 Project ‘ReSHEALience’.
Prof Liberato Ferrara, Project Coordinator, Politecnico di Milano,
13.25 UHDC Concept, Design, Manufacture and Pilot Casting at Banagher.
Peter Deegan, Irish Pilot Project Lead, Banagher Precast Concrete
13.45 Questions and Answers
Prof Liberato Ferrara and Peter Deegan
14.00 Ends
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The Institute of Concrete Technology is hosting a webinar entitled Concrete: Getting More from Less via In-Transit Management Systems on 13th October 2020 at 12.30pm
For further information see: Webinar GCP Helen Frape Final (2)
In keeping with on-going public health guidance, the Irish Concrete Society regrets that the 38th Annual Awards Dinner will not be held this year.
As the awards had been scheduled to take place on the 24th October, we will instead announce the winners of this year’s competition on that date.
We would like to take this opportunity to thank all of this year’s entrants for their patience and understanding, and wish you all the very best.
Our office will be in contact to arrange refunding of tickets.
Ultra High Performance Concrete (UHPC) is a relatively new form of concrete that exhibits enhanced strength and durability properties in comparison to conventional concretes. However, associated higher binder contents and significantly higher initial costs requires improved material sustainability performance. Conducted in Sligo Institute of Technology, this research examined the development of new UHPC mixes to improve both material sustainability and to make UHPC more readily available. In addition to conducting experimental characteristic strength testing, experimental testing and three-dimensional finite element modelling were conducted on small-scale structural elements to determine the structural behaviour of the material and demonstrate how numerical modelling can be utilised for the future development of design codes and guidelines.
This presentation will be of interest to all those who are involved in the design, specification and construction of concrete structures. Those who should attend include architects, consulting engineers, engineers in contracting firms, specialist concrete sub-contractors, concrete and precast concrete producers, concrete technologists, and precast concrete designers.
13.00 Welcome and Introduction
13.05 UHPC – a New Frontier in Concrete Design
Dr William Wilson, Concrete Technologist, Roadstone
13.45 Questions and Answers
14.00 Ends
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Information on future talks in this series will follow
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