Warning:
"Indian Guide to Quality Concrete" is only meant for those Civil
Engineers, Contractors & Organizations who genuinely care about
Quality.
Dear
Friend,
Before
we give details of Indian
Guide to Quality Concrete, lets have its quick preview in
this video
....to appreciate why it has acquired the status of dream CD for
Civil Engineers..
(to make the video load
& run quickly on your computer , the quality of video is not as
high as we would have liked to)
Every
Civil Engineer is aware of the need to produce the
Quality Concrete; its often said that an
engineer is as good (or bad) as his concrete is!
Still,
we quite often come across instances of poor quality of
concrete/Reinforced Cement Concrete
.....even in very high profile & important structures..giving a
bad
name not only to an individual or organization but also to
Civil
Engineering Community as a whole.
A
number of firms/organizations/institutes
have been consulting Concrete-Techgroup to investigate reasons for
occurence of defects in their concrete structures (sometimes even the
newly constructed ones!). On interviewing concerned Civil Engineers, we
were rather pained to know that very few Civil
Engineers were really aware of the quality parameters that are to be
complied with
By virtue of this experience, we can say with confidence that
almost
90% of the construction defects are caused due to lack of
awareness/knowledge on part of Civil Engineers
in-charge of execution of the work. In few cases, concerned Civil
Engineers were not even aware of the fact that one Indian Standard
prescribes Guidelines for falsework for Concrete Structures! . This
lack of awareness/knowledge extends to all facets of Concrete making
including material specifications, material testing, batching, mixing,
mix design, transporting, placing, compacting, curing, concrete
testing, ready mix concrete etc....etc....
This
prompted Concrete-Techgroup to look into ways to improve
level of awareness/knowledge amongst Civil Engineers as regards to
quality parameters for Concrete. We all know that Indian
Standards & Special Publications (...89 of
them! )
published by BIS cover
various aspects of concrete production & testing
quite
extensively.
Practical problem that Civil Engineers face is " how to
quickly find the parameters what they want....?" .
Concrete-Techgroup
began working on the challenge
of developing a software which would help Civil Engineers to quickly
find the desired quality parameter ...in just a
few clicks..in an
user friendly menu driven interface....
After
about one year of painstaking research which
included extensive
discussions with practising Civil Engineers, Quality Control
engineers,
Concrete-Techgroup brought out Indian Guide to
Quality Concrete to cater to long pending requirement of
Civil Engineers as a one-point
solution
to
quickly find the parameters what they want.....in just a
few clicks..!
How
exactly does the
"Indian Guide to Quality Concrete" help?
Indian Guide to Quality Concrete has an unique menu driven format...we
are quite used to regular menu items in softwares like MS
Word, Excel
etc; these are "File", "Edit", "View", "Insert", "Format", "Tools"
etc.......
But Indian Guide to Quality Concrete is NOT a
regular software....its a software for Civil Engineers,
Contractors & Organizations who genuinely care about
Quality......so
we have menu items like:
- Cement
- Coarse Aggregate
- Fine Aggregate
- Water
- Admixtures
- Reinforcement
- Batching
- Concrete Mix Design
- Formwork
- Reinforcement cutting,
placement & binding
- Concrete Mixing
- Transporting
- Placing
- Vibrating
- Curing
- Tests for Cement, Aggregate,
Admixtures & Concrete
- Shotcrete
- Silica Fumes
- Ready Mix Concrete
- IS 456-2000
- IS 457
- Design loadings
- Material Handling &
Storage etc ..etc
Now
all that a Civil Engineer needs is to click on the menu item &
then the sub-menu item ....& get the
parameters what he wants .....in just a
few clicks..!
Its
truly amazing! thats why Indian Guide to Quality Concrete
has achieved the status of "the
Dream CD for Civil Engineers"
within a relatively short period. It has been purchased (often in bulk)
by infrastucture firms, Construction Companies, Government departments
, Practising engineers & contractors, students &
educators,
Institutional libraries etc..etc...
