The Story of Cement in India EP 10 ft. Civil Engineer Kuldeep Sharma | BuildMate Podcast

Kuldeep Sharma is a Civil Engineer who has worked in the construction industry for more than 10 years now but his core area of competency and knowledge lies in Cement tech, cement manufacturing, cement applications, cement best practices.

He is a dear friend and took out his valuable time for us to share his knowledge and wisdom with all of us. I think if you are someone related to construction or linked to cement directly or indirectly, you will find this episode very very useful and engaging!

00:00 Introduction
00:57 History of cement, origin of PPC and OPC
03:30 Why we needed cement in India and when production started in India
05:40 Harsh truth about per capita consumption of cement in India
07:50 Types of cement and how to select which cement is best for your use
09:50 Even in Delhi, 90% people don't want to hire an architect or engineer
11:04 Are you waiting for a calamity to happen, to build better?
14:27 How cement is manufactured. What is Clinker?
17:45 Take help of companies who have technical teams in place and these services are free
18:33 You can change all elements in your home but not the structural aspects without breaking the structure
21:01 Site mixing or RMC?
22:58 Judging cement on the basis of pricing
23:45 Every company that is producing cement, they cannot produce sub par quality in cement
25:32 Is there any cement that can reduce corrosion in the steel of our building?
26:38 Bombay Worli Sea Link and what cement was used there
27:08 Experience/ blunders on sites explained with a funny story
28:31 Why people question cement first if anything goes wrong
29:21 Ratios that are used on site and how we still using primitive methods because even the sand is different now
31:25 Testing of materials and resources where you can get materials tested
32:03 Basic test on site for fine aggregate (It is so simple, it'll blow your mind)
33:13 Basic Test for coarse aggregate on site
33:27 Basic test for bricks on site
34:13 No one gets soil test done ever!
34:55 One of my own experiences on site and horrible way of how cement was stored
36:04 How should one store cement on site?
38:54 How to check age of cement at the time of purchase
40:50 Resistance to flyash. Is Fly ash detrimental from all different perspectives. Benefits of FA
45:07 How important is quick setting of concrete? Ill-perception around it.
47:00 Why curing is important and diff methods of curing
49:12 Does cement type differ from region to region?
50:30 Slag cement and its presence and benefits
51:37 Even if a certain material is not available in my state, what if I am willing to pay for it to arrange it?
54:21 What is the time of de-shuttering?
56:54 AAC Blocks vs Bricks? Is it a given that AAC block will break for sure?

Do you have any questions for Kuldeep? Write to Kuldeep at [email protected]

Thanks.

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Rishabh Aggarwal

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