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Peculiarities of African cement and concrete markets - Challenges and opportunities

  • The African environment for the construction with concrete differs greatly from the Situation that can be found in Europe, Japan or North America. Europe can look back upon a concrete tradition of more than 150 years. Standardising documents and guidelines exist since more than 100 years, which formed the foundation of modern Standards that are adopted and applied and in many regions of the world. The technological developments in cement production are also strongly influenced by environmental conditions of the Northern hemisphere. In contrast, with the exception of South Africa, in most countries of sub-Saharan Africa, cement production started in the 1950s to 1960s, followed by a period of political and economical disturbances in many countries. As a result, there have not been serious approaches towards customised Solutions for the construction with concrete for the specific boundary conditions of sub-Saharan Africa. In most countries Standards from overseas are applied. Today, mostThe African environment for the construction with concrete differs greatly from the Situation that can be found in Europe, Japan or North America. Europe can look back upon a concrete tradition of more than 150 years. Standardising documents and guidelines exist since more than 100 years, which formed the foundation of modern Standards that are adopted and applied and in many regions of the world. The technological developments in cement production are also strongly influenced by environmental conditions of the Northern hemisphere. In contrast, with the exception of South Africa, in most countries of sub-Saharan Africa, cement production started in the 1950s to 1960s, followed by a period of political and economical disturbances in many countries. As a result, there have not been serious approaches towards customised Solutions for the construction with concrete for the specific boundary conditions of sub-Saharan Africa. In most countries Standards from overseas are applied. Today, most African economies are growing at a rapid pace and construction activities in infrastructure and housing are urgently required to support and keep up the economic verve. Concrete technology will become of major interest in this context, since no other material can be produced similarly efficiently based on raw materials, which can be found largely only locally. In order to produce concrete with high efficiency, the local boundary framework has to be taken into account. Sub-Saharan Africa exhibits special peculiarities that are not covered by the recently applied technological guidelines and Standards. These need to be addressed to in local codes of practice in order to maximise the benefit of concrete technology.zeige mehrzeige weniger

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Autor*innen:Wolfram SchmidtORCiD
Persönliche Herausgeber*innen:W. Schmidt, H. Uzoegbo
Dokumenttyp:Beitrag zu einem Tagungsband
Veröffentlichungsform:Graue Literatur
Sprache:Englisch
Titel des übergeordneten Werkes (Englisch):Bauma Africa 2013 - Global issues in concrete construction - Markets, perspectives, technologies (Proceedings)
Jahr der Erstveröffentlichung:2013
Erste Seite:25
Letzte Seite:28
Veranstaltung:Bauma Africa 2013 - Global issues in concrete construction - Markets, perspectives, technologies
Veranstaltungsort:Johannesburg, South Africa
Beginndatum der Veranstaltung:18.09.2013
Enddatum der Veranstaltung:21.09.2013
Verfügbarkeit des Dokuments:Datei im Netzwerk der BAM verfügbar ("Closed Access")
Datum der Freischaltung:20.02.2016
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