Recent Advances in Concrete Technology and Sustainability Issues

Abstract

Preface

The Canada Centre for Mineral and Energy Technology (CANMET) of Natural Resources of Canada, Ottawa, has played a significant role for more than 40 years in the broad area of concrete technology in Canada.

In recent years CANMET has become increasingly involved in research and development dealing with the supplementary cementing materials, high-performance normal weight and lightweight concretes, and alkali-aggregate reactions.

As part of CANMET’s technology transfer program, an international symposium on Advances in Concrete Technology was sponsored jointly with the American Concrete Institute (ACI) and other organizations in Athens, Greece in May 1992.

In June 1995, CANMET, in association with the ACI and other organizations in Canada and the U.S.A., sponsored the Second CANMET/ ACI International Symposium on Advances in Concrete Technology in Las Vegas, Nevada.

For the Athens symposium, the CANMET publication ‘’Advances in Concrete Technology,’’ constituted the proceedings of the symposium.

The proceedings from the Las Vegas symposium were published by the ACI as SP-154.

In August 1997, CANMET in association with the ACI and other organizations in Canada and New Zealand, sponsored the Third CANMET/ACI International Symposium on Advance in Concrete Technology in Auckland, New Zealand.