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CTU Conference 2012

Details of the Concrete Technology Unit's forthcoming Conference... Read more on this

UKIERI

UKIERI aims to substantially improve educational links between India and UK ensuring in the longer term the two countries become each other's partner of choice in education. UKIERI was announced by the Prime Minister Tony Blair during his visit to India in September 2005, and launched in April 2006. This collaboration instigated by the Concrete Technology Unit, University of Dundee, seeks to develop high performance, sustainable forms of concrete that are responsive to infra-structural developments taking place in both the UK and India. The collaboration will develop innovative cements to reduce CO2 emissions, and other concerns with the production of cement and aggregates. Furthermore, concrete has often been inappropriately specified resulting in resource inefficiency, durability concerns and expensive repairs. Since there is no alternative to concrete, the collaboration will investigate methods for mitigating these associated factors... Read more on this

Link to UKIERI.

Network Concrete

Worldwide, concrete is unquestionably the number one construction material and this is expected to remain so for the foreseeable future. Notwithstanding this, there are ever increasing demands, revisions to standards and specifications, and greater emphasis on concrete performance, whole-life costing and sustainability, particularly in terms of efficient use of resources and energy. Furthermore, the carbon footprint of concrete construction is coming under increasing global scrutiny. This pressure on the concrete industry has significant implications on the current drive to expand infrastructure and the challenges are especially great in rapidly expanding economies such as those of India and China... Read more on this

Network Concrete Homepage.

Knowledge Transfer Partnerships

Tayside Contracts Ltd helps to pave the way for sustainable roads. Link to case study.

Civil Engineering at Dundee is TOP in Scotland!

The recent Research Assessment Exercise 2008 results show that Civil Engineering at the University of Dundee is top in Scotland for its research with the highest percentage of research publications being classed as "Internationally recognised" and "world leading".

For more information on the research being carried out in the Division of Civil Engineering.

For more information on the recent RAE results.

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