Seminar On Fly Ash as a "Building Material"

Report on Saturday Seminars


March 16, 2007
Seminar on Fly Ash as a Building Material by Mr. Mukund Joshi, DIRK India Ltd, Nashik

Mr Mukund Joshi of DIRK, India Ltd presented an informative seminar to the students of M.Arch (Environmental Architecture) on Fly Ash as a building material. Mr Mukund Joshi, a civil engineer and a concrete technologist by profession, has had extensive experience with cement and concrete technologies. His research has now extended to include fly ash as a cement additive to enhance the basic qualities of concrete.

This Saturday Seminar event was kept open to the Post Graduate students of Bharati Vidyapeeth College of Architecture and other interested students and professionals. Mr Joshi’s lecture was a tru turning point for understanding fly ash as a additive material and its inseparable relationship with cement in formation of durable concrete.

His lecture threw light on the aspects of chemical reactions involved in making of concrete and its limitations. He highlighted how addition of fly ash often tackles the limitation of reactions in making of concrete, thereby enhancing the durability property of concrete.

Students found the interactions with Mr Joshi highly interesting and expressed their appreciation for the fact that complex chemical reactions were simplified in the lecture, giving more insight into the cement concrete mechanism. Environmental benefits of using fly ash were also highlighted by this lecture.