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Start of round-robin
test for cement testing
in Africa

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Dipl.-Ing. Wolfram Schmidt from BAM in discussion with students at the laboratory workshop

Photo: BAM

Photo: BAM

Tour of a construction site in Dar es Salaam, the seat of Tanzania’s government

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Within the scope of the SPIN project (www.spin.bam.de), three staff members of the Federal Institute for Materials Research and Testing (BAM), Berlin, traveled to Tanzania on 30 June. There they, together with scientists from several other African countries, were to give a course of lectures for Masters and Ph.D. students as well as leading a kick-off workshop for an all-African round-robin test for cement testing.

The first stop of the BAM staff was in Zanzibar, where they inspected an on-going a building reinstatement project and discussed plans for the conference “Advances in Cement and...

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