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EDITORIAL

Chief Sustainability Officer, Magali Anderson. This is followed their potential candidatures as concrete ingredients. This
by interactions with the Director General of National Council for however needs to be reviewed in the gamut of the bigger
Cement and Building Materials (NCCBM), Dr B N Mohapatra canvas of concrete making. This is captured in the paper
and the Chief Executive Officer of Rodic Consultants, Satish authored by Drs da Silva, Silva and De Brito from Lisbon.
Kumar Sharma. These interactions capture perspectives on
contemporary trends as seen by a research organization and Dr Ketan Sompura provides an admixture manufacturer’s
design and project management consultancy. Taking a birds’ eye perspective on the current challenges faced in India and the
need to rapidly embrace modern chemical admixtures to be
view, both these interactions emphasize needs for integrated
approach involving all stakeholders and education. used in modern day concretes. Finally, Dr Sharvil Faroz et.al.
bring out a limitation regarding today’s design engineering
Meghna Gill an architect, India, comments on the increasing practices that while being good at structural designing tend
need for integrating the psychological, social and cultural to ignore durability considerations and life-cycle estimation
sustainability aspects. These aspects will soon form the building mechanisms. Besides highlighting limitations in specifications
blocks of modern-concrete making. In the following article, and codal provisions in commensurately addressing such
emphasizing innovation, Christophe Levy, the Scientific Director issues, this paper emphasizes the need for better education
of the LafargeHolcim Innovation Centre, France, glances into and understanding on deterioration mechanisms of bridges
the future of ready-mix concrete, building his arguments from and need for effective specifications for delivering 100 years of
a geography that has a long-established legacy and special service life.
preference for concrete.
Considering these contributions as perspectives from diverse
Summarizing ten trends in reducing carbon footprint of leaderships, I request you to read their contributions with
concrete, Leonel Lemay, Executive Vice President, Structures an open mind. With a hope that this issue will inspire further
and Sustainability and Dr Colin Lobo, Executive Vice President thinking and help initiate some interactions amongst various
of Engineering from the National Ready Mixed Concrete stakeholders, I present to you this edition for your reading
Association (NRMCA), U.S.A, note that reaching carbon pleasure. It would be nice to hear your objective feedback and
quasi-neutrality in a few decades is a matter of life or death critique, which would help us improvise further special issues.
for concrete industry. With the shutting down of coal-fired Happy reading and trendsetting!
thermal power plants, our dependence on coal fly ashes might
be phased out. Byproducts such as bottom ashes from the Chetan Hazaree
incineration of biomass, coal and sewage sludge are presenting Guest Editor, ICJ

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