Table of Contents

April/May 2012

Editorial

• A Community of People

Cover Story

• 2012 World of Concrete Review
  Optimism Returns to the Big Show.
  

Features

• Aggregate Moisture in SCC
  Excess aggregate moisture will harm self-consolidating concrete.
  Web Extra: Spring ACI Convention Presentation: "The Effective Use of Moisture Equipment to Control the Water Content During SCC Production" by Neal Cass, Hydronix technical sales manager, March 2012 (PPT)
  

• Casting Trends: Concrete Comes out on Top
  Customers say concrete is durable, easy to design, and less flammable.
  

• That's the Spirit
  Famous distillery chooses roller-compacted concrete over asphalt.
  

Columnists

• Villere: Concrete Returns
  The Emperor's New Clothes
  

• Abelson: Fleet Factors
  When Rubber Hits the Road
  

What's New

• Addressing ASR Together
  

Problem Clinic

• Quality's Costs
  

Beyond Green

• The Evolving World of Green Concrete
  Web Extras:
  Beyond Green Update: 2012 International Green Construction Code Released
  Green Building Megatrends for 2012
  CarbonCure Technologies Distributors
  BAE Systems: HybriDrive Parallel Propulsion System
  Lafarge North America: Contempra Portland-Limestone Cement
  

Product Pulse

• The Future of Concrete is Here
  Related articles: "Designed for Success," TCP April/May 2011