Good climate with concrete

Concrete has many advantages: It is easily formed and provides architects and engineers great freedom in implementing their designs. But concrete is most of all appealing, owing to its high performance. With proper choice of cements and aggregates, its compressive strength can be precisely adjusted to the design loading specified.

These advantages of architectural and structural design make concrete not only an extraordinary construction material: it has other benefits that have made it simply indispensable. This applies equally to building and industrial construction, underground engineering...