One Day National Workshop

On

“Modern Concreting Techniques”

Report

Department of Civil Engineering, Coimbatore Institute of Technology (CIT), Coimbatore, Industry

Institute Partnership Cell (Sponsored by AICTE) and RMC Readymix (India) jointly organized a one day national

workshop on “MODERN CONCRETING TECHNIQUES” held on February 24, 2011. The workshop

received overwhelming response from Civil Engineering community across the state. A total number of 339

participants which includes 20 Faculties, 24 practicing Civil Engineers and 295 Students

participated in the workshop.

The workshop was inaugurated by Sri. R. RAJENDRAN, Business Manager, RMC Readymix

(India), Coimbatore with the august presence of Dr. V. SELLADURAI, Principal, CIT and Dr. K.

SUBRAMANIAN, Professor and Head of Civil Engineering, CIT at CIT

The morning session of the workshop started with a lecture delivered by Sri. R. RAJENDRAN,

Business Manager, RMC Readymix (India) was wonderful on “CONCRETE TECHNOLOGY – BASIC

PER VIEW”, the way in which he gave ideas to produce good quality concrete with the latest technologies. The

next technical lecture was delivered by Dr. K. SUBRAMANIAN, Professor and Head of Civil

Engineering, CIT on “CONCRETE MIX DESIGN PROCEDURE AS PER IS-10262:2009” was very

informative in which the difference between the existing and the revised codes were well understood by the

participants. The final technical talk in the morning session was delivered by Er. C. RAVIKUMAR, Deputy

Technical Manager, RMC Readymix (India) on “REACHING NEW HORIZON IN CONCRETE”, on

recently developed concretes was appreciated very well by almost all the participants.

The participants were taken to RMC Readymix (India) Plant, Coimbatore in the afternoon session. Sri.

G. VEERSANKAR, Senior Technical Officer, RMC Readymix (India) explained the components and

operations of the RMC plant. Er. C. RAVIKUMAR, Deputy Technical Manager, explained the process

of producing different types of modern concretes like light weight concrete and geopolymer

concrete. The workshop was of more inspiration and beneficial to Civil Engineering community.

The workshop valedictory held at RMC Readymix (India) Plant, Coimbatore. Mr. M. P.

MUTHURAJ, Organizing Secretary and Assistant Professor in Civil Engineering, CIT thanked the

participants. The participants felt that the workshop was of more inspiration and beneficial to Civil

Engineering community.