TC presentation by Dr Wolfram Schmidt, TC 291-AMC

RILEM Technical Committee 291-AMC : Use of Agro-Based Materials as Cementitious Additions in Concrete and Cement-Based Materials
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Great presentation and very informative...👏👏👏

[@boudewijnpiscaer1656]

Without any doubt Wolfram Schmidt has done an outstanding job with lots of passion. He underestimates the reflection his work can have on making sustainable concrete GLOBALLY with more social conscience then is the case now. Using Agro-Based materials, mainly rice husk ash, has been a grateful topic for many Master and PhD degrees and was detected as far as I know since 1993 at the TU Delft for graduation purpose.
However, the implementation has been dramatically low, even in Asia where 2 professors got their PhD on the topic " Rice Husk Ash for High Performance Concrete (2001)" and "Rice Husk Ash for ULTRA High Performance Concrete" (2011). Besides adding the word "Ultra", nothing significant has happened in this field.
If the RILEM (and who knows the GLOBE Consensus if it will survive) has any serious conscious direction Social & Sustainable Construction Enterprising the topic has to be implemented. But it will take vision from stake holders in the concrete economy, not those that hold on to their STEAK!