Potentials of concrete

One certainly does not have to be a prophet, dear readers, to predict that the further development of concrete since the invention of opus caementitium is still a long way from complete. The recent decades in particular have shown the vast potentials still waiting to be unlocked.

Just recently, in my home office, I came across study material from the early 1980s, back when I served my apprenticeship as a concrete constructor and bricklayer at the company BMK Dresden. Then, concrete was mainly a relatively easily comprehended three-component system – and, besides, a colorless mass product. At...

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