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Concrete Technology – Best Practice with Tony Binns

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Concrete Technology – Best Practice with Tony Binns

Course Cost £295 +VAT
Duration 1 DAY
  • One-day course for construction managers, site supervisors, and technicians.
  • Focus on control of concrete on site.
  • Topics include fresh concrete, consistency, cohesion, and concrete strength.
  • Emphasis on durability, placing, compacting, and curing concrete.
  • In-depth coverage on accepting readymix, sampling, testing, and action plan.

Overview

This one-day course is designed for construction managers, site supervisors, and technicians to learn about controlling concrete on site. The course covers topics such as fresh concrete, consistence requirements, concrete strength, durability, placing and compacting concrete, curing, accepting readymix on site, sampling and testing fresh concrete, and includes a session for questions, answers, and discussions.

Who should attend

Construction Managers, Site Supervisors, Technicians

Course duration: 1 Day

Cost: £295 + VAT

Overview

A one-day course for construction managers, site supervisors and technicians in the control of concrete on site.

Course Outline

Fresh concrete

Consistence requirements: Getting the right slump and getting the slump right

Checking cohesion: Problems of segregation, honeycombing, bleeding and reinforcement ripple

Concrete schedules: Strength, water/cement ratio, minimum cement content and slump

Concrete strength: The meaning of C40/50 etc

Durability and how it is achieved: Resistance to cracking, abrasion, freezing

Placing and compacting concrete on site: The myth of over-vibration

Correct use of poker vibrators and beam vibrators

Curing: What it means and why it matters

Accepting readymix on site
– What to watch for: slump, uniformity, appearance
– What not to sign for: time limitations, adding water to concrete on site

Sampling and testing fresh concrete
– Slump test, cube making, storing and curing cubes
– What to do when the cubes fail

Action plan

Questions, answers and discussion

Experts in Construction and Infrastructure Training

1000+

Training courses available

250000+

Course hours completed

50+

Expert trainers

CITB, APS, IEMA

Accreditation training centres

12

Accreditations

Testimonials

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The course was exceptional, well run in terms of delivery of information, IT online course but seamless. Very interesting examples of temporary works failures applicable to the businesses we worked in. Break out activities / group examples worked very well and were again well managed by the trainer. Fantastic course, I will recommend to others! Best course I have attended in years!

CITB Temporary Works Co-Ordinator

Black & Veatch

The trainers knowledge was excellent and I liked his examples and how he could relate them to every day relatable examples that we could all understand. Coming from different industries and sectors his examples were a common ground. It was handled very well virtually and the engagement worked with his questioning and answering

Contract Management

The Pension Regulator

The training was very interactive and the tutor was excellent in engaging every course attendee and ensuring that the course content was tailored to each attendees Organisation and Company requirements

CITB Temporary Works Awareness

Kone – H &S Advisor

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