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EDITORIAL

TOTAL CONCRETING Dear Readers,

We are pleased to bring to you our edition on Trend(s) of Futures(s) of Concrete(s) guest edited by Dr Chetan Hazaree. His core areas
SOLUTIONS in dealing with materials’ issues on hydropower, nuclear, underground, metro, railway and road projects. With over 40 publications
of specialization are Construction Aggregates and Concretes. Besides being engaged in construction R&D, he has varied experiences
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and diverse experience of research, innovation, and execution, he likes to share practical experience in multiple ways, often
bringing in practical insights, challenges, and ways of solving such problems in most lucid and practical ways. He has a Ph.D. in Civil
Engineering Materials from Iowa State University, U.S.A.
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encourage you to read these perspectives on trends and share your feedback with us.
Your Partner in Production, Transportation & Placement of Concrete This edition attempts to bring forward accelerated and versatile advancements by various stakeholders to build sustainably. We
Production Editor
Indian Concrete Journal

TREND(S) SHAPING FUTURE(S) OF CONCRETE(S)

Please accept my greetings like never before. Fueled by the desires to make concrete an
Dear Readers! environmentally preferred material, Policy makers, Governments,
Developers, Contractors, Corporate houses, Academicians,
I hope this special issue of ICJ finds Social enterprises, Professional bodies, and public are all
you safe and doing well during the becoming aware of their responsibilities. While developing
transitory phases of COVID pandemic. countries witness faster makeovers, it will be immensely
It is important that we check on each beneficial to have these transitions reach and implement with
other for safety and well-being!
greater speed in India. Synergized interactions amongst various
Starting with ‘why’ always acts like stakeholders across the value-chain will be a key factor in
a guiding force and channelizes efforts efficiently. The overall deciding the paths that emerge.
pace of proceedings is encouraging a belief that the interactions Accelerated and versatile advancements and transformation in
across stakeholders in concrete industry are limited to bring terms of concrete making raw materials, designing methods,
about visible commensurate-to-progress maturity. While testing, recycling, etc. are percolating our World. A combined,
concrete construction is witnessing an increasing surge, it is albeit not synergized, effect thus produced is making it difficult
vital to align all these stakeholders to craft a vision for their to comprehend concrete (as we know today) in a singular
concrete(s). Moreover, with industries employing R&D and material form for future. There will be variants and mutations
innovation teams, significant, direct and applied advancements that would make concrete a more comprehensive and more
are fashioning in advancing not just the body-of-knowledge, but widely accepted material. Hence, there will be many-a-trends
also the state-of-the-art and -practice. Our effort to synthesize, that will shape many-a-futures for many-a-concretes.
share and exchange such multi-stakeholder information
culminated in designing of this edition. While doing so, With these thoughts in mind and making it relevant to the
benchmarking with global leaders could be an essential first theme, myself along with the ICJ team solicited contributions
step to derive directions and save invaluable time and energy. from multiple stakeholders. Although our efforts were to curate
In addition, such milestones will help us design “our leaps and a multi-stakeholder contribution, a wide gap between trends in
bridge our gaps”. research and trends in practice made it challenging to assemble
the desired literary contributions envisaged within a limited
The pluralized theme of this issue, trend(s) shaping future(s) period. Consequently, making a humble beginning, this issue
of concrete(s) signifies its intent of capturing multitudes of has emerged as a tussie-mussie of perspectives from Academia,
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