Cement

Editions covering cement chemistry, clinker production, kiln fuels, and the economics of cement in residential and commercial construction.

Cement Ed #14

Concrete cover is a corrosion clock. Double the depth and you buy four times the years before the steel starts to go.

Concrete cover controls when chloride corrosion starts. Why doubling it quadruples the clock, what IS 456 requires, and how to read EN 1504 repair classes.

Cement Ed #13

Two waterproofing systems on one basement wall. When the redundancy works, and when they fail together.

Crystalline admixture plus liquid membrane in a basement wall. When redundancy works, when both fail together, and the sequence that decides between them.

Cement Ed #10

LC3 cement: -40% CO2, same compressive strength. India's cement industry doesn't use it. Here's why.

LC3 cement in India: what limestone-calcined-clay concrete actually is, where it already replaces OPC, and where the CCTS rules leave the market waiting.

Cement Ed #7

Polymer prices up 60%. Naphtha up 74% in 14 days. Hormuz is rewriting construction chemicals.

Hormuz blockade and construction chemicals India: which RDP, cellulose ethers and dispersants get squeezed, and the sourcing pivots already underway.