Researchers at MIT have discovered something that has eluded science for all of history. In research funded by Portuguese cement producer Cimpor, MIT has finally modeled the crystalline structure of cement hydrate. Yes, in spite of cement being the most widely used manmade building material in the world, no one really knew how it worked, at [...]
How will Business in the 21st Century Look? Sure it depends on your industry… but the value of time… how can you measure it?
Check out this link - Sony played this mind-blowing video at their Executive conference this year
Mind-Blowing Video… time in the 21st century
In the 21st Century where knowledge is relatively cheap, time is nearly priceless and [...]
Here is a list of the speakers for the concurrent Environmental Workshop and our notes on what they had to say during their presentation and during the subsequent Q&A Session for conference participants:
1. AB -32: CO2 Climate Change and the Cement Industry by Michael Stevens of National Cement:
• All 6 cement companies and 11 cement plants [...]
Phil Gaynor shared his thoughts on the purpose of this conference:
Knowledge Transfer
This conference is widely acknowledged to be the world’s leading technical conference for the cement industry and the Cement Industry Committee (CIC) has done some neat things, like the concurrent Environmental Workshop, to make this conference [...]
Conference Organizers are pretty satisfied with the level of attendance (600 people are reportedly registered) in consideration of the weakened economy. Even more satisfying is that 80 of the 600 are cement producers. California Portland and TXI are key contributors to attendance. Ash Grove has only one registrant, but reportedly will be back in 2010 to support [...]
Update : This site and blog are going ‘live’ on Sunday May 31st, from the 2009 IEEE/PCA Cement Industry Technical Conference in Palm Springs, California USA. As a courtesy to our customers, we will be posting live updates during the conference to give you a “play-by-play” feel to those of you who could not be in [...]
BridgeGap Engineering – Where your Cement, Minerals or Aggregate challenge is our opportunity to provide solutions.
We hope you can take some time to surf the site and get an idea what BridgeGap Engineering is about. This site and blog are going ‘live’ at the end of May 2009. It may take a bit to perfect, but enjoy the [...]