Abstract:
Abstract
Concrete had witnessed consecutive promotion processes since its
discovering five thousand years B.C that coinciding with the evolution of the
various aspects of the contemporary life, that lead to the discovery of new
materials, which had been added to concrete mixture to promote and
upgrade its properties, in accordance with the role of concrete admixture, the
research title is derived out as follow ( Use of concrete admixtures in the
construction industry in Khartoum (a field survey study).
The main objective of this research is to study the use of concrete
admixtures in the construction projects. The limitation of this research is
within Khartoum state, and to process this study the researcher has adopted
the statistical approach, he distributed a questionnaire among those who are
interested in the construction industry, and that has been on the basis of
certain hypotheses e.g. that there isn’t considerable interest
of using
concrete admixtures, in the construction sites within the Khartoum state,
unless there is specific characteristics of the concerned projects such as the
largeness of its size.
the
following program has been used (Statistical Package for Social
Sciences-SPSS -13), for data analysis, and to obtain the results and
recommendations.
the most important results, that the participants emphasized the lack of
interest to use the concrete admixtures, in construction sites within
Khartoum state. The participants’ consultants and contractors are the most
group that interested in using admixtures. And there is general
dissatisfaction because of the lack of interest in the construction sector to
use concrete admixtures as a result of the lack of proper training and the
absence of the proper knowledge of the advantage of using the concrete
admixtures in addition to the weakness of quality culture all that enabled
foreign companies to have superiority, over local companies concerning the
importance of admixtures and their use.
And according to the results that have been achieved, the necessary
recommendations were formulated to address the research problem, and the
most important of these recommendations are: The necessity of using
concrete admixture, and their use shall not be limited to the projects of
significant characteristics and to focus on continuous academic promotion
and training in the field of admixtures and the quality of the concrete in
general.
And also the localization of concrete admixture industry within the country
has been recommended through local industries , and to activate the role of
the
unions, associations, and the engineering councils concerning the
importance of concrete admixtures by holding forums, seminars and the
awareness scientific workshops.