Recently, the Ministry of Transport issued the "Cement and Cement Concrete Test Regulations for Highway Engineering" (JTG 3420-2020) (referred to as the "Regulations"), which will be implemented as a highway engineering industry standard from March 1, 2021.

Many agencies pointed out that the economy continued to recover and the construction rush period was coming. Cement companies are expected to run at a high level. The decline in inventories will drive up cement prices.

The first 3D printed residential building in Germany is undergoing construction in Beckum, North Rhine-Westphalia. The two-story printed detached house with approx. 80 sqm of living space per floor is using a system put into practice in Germany for the first time.

On October 25, the "2020 Fujian Provincial Concrete and Admixture Application Technology Exchange Conference" with the theme of "Research and Practice of Concrete" was held in Quanzhou, Fujian. The conference was hosted by Fujian Concrete Engineering Technology Research Center,

Prospects and Thoughts on Cement and Concrete Industry

he ready-mixed concrete port facilities have begun to be built with an investment of 200 million Singapore dollar in Jurong Port to accelerate the automation of the local construction industry and increase production efficiency..

On September 1, 2020,Forty of the world’s leading cement and concrete companies unveiled a joint industry ‘2050 Climate Ambition’.

Recently, with the accelerated recovery of "old infrastructure construction" (traditional infrastructure construction), cement prices have risen in many parts of our country.

In the field of additive manufacturing, 3D printing with concrete is one of the more special fields. Compared with traditional methods, it still has the advantages of optimizing material use and cutting costs.

According to the website of The Architect’s Newspaper，The Provincial Centre for Sustainability and Innovation in Construction (better known as Kamp C) in the Belgian municipality of Westerlo has completed work on a two-story model home

Singapore Housing Development Board locally sets up the largest 3D printer of South East Asia and hopes to apply this technology to combined house in the future.

Researchers from Holland are exploring more potential of using concrete for 3D printing and have outlined their findings in the recently published "3D Printing Geopolymer Concrete Life Cycle Assessment: A Prior Study"