The concrete industry nowadays faces new challenge on manufacturing concrete with more stringent technical requirements and as the urbanisation increases, the usage of concrete rises. But apart from challenge from manufacturing it also faces huge challenges in construction especially due to vertical growth in cities with mushrooming of high-rise buildings.
Dr. Prakash Nanthagopalan, Assistant Professor, Department of Civil Engineering – IIT Bombay stated that there are three challenges mainly faced while pumping to high-rise projects such as blockage of concrete, wear and tear of pipes and lastly the quality of concrete coming out is not appropriate because of pumping pressures, variable pressures etc. Therefore lots of difficulties are encountered.
“To overcome such difficulties there should be proper understanding of concrete. A high-rise building is a big project therefore there should be fundamental understanding of what type of concrete, quality of concrete, and then whether it will be pumpable or not,” suggested Dr. Prakash Nanthagopalan, Vice President, Building Materials, Reliance Industries while speaking on the sidelines the seminar on ‘Modern Construction Chemicals and Systems for Construction Industry’ organised by IIT Bombay and Chryso India in Mumbai recently. The second seminar was held at IIT Delhi.