Quality of Cement

Cement quality is not one number. A cement that gains strength quickly may be wrong for a mass pour, and a low heat cement is wrong where a form has to be stripped tomorrow. This week covers the properties that define fitness for a use, how each is measured, and what in the manufacturing process controls it. Standards and cement types are covered as the language in which all of this is agreed between maker and user.

It runs 7 times over the published calendar, in 6 cities and live online. Every date is the same programme with the same content and the same certificate.

• Define the properties that determine fitness for a given use.
• Measure strength, setting, soundness and heat correctly.
• Relate each property to a manufacturing control.
• Read a cement standard and a type designation.
• Advise a customer on cement selection honestly.

Quality and laboratory staff, process engineers, technical sales and customer support, and concrete technologists working with cement suppliers.

Short input, then work. Across 5 days of roughly 6 teaching hours each, the balance sits deliberately with the second: a programme where the trainer talks for six hours produces notes rather than capability.

• Your own material

  Exercises run on situations delegates bring, not on a case study written for a different organisation in a different decade.

• A capped cohort

  Small enough that everybody is asked something. Executive programmes are capped tighter still.

• Practice under scrutiny

  The difficult conversation, the challenged assumption, the decision defended out loud. Judgement is not built by watching.

• Something to take back

  Each day ends with a thing you can use on Monday rather than a slide deck you will not reopen.

• A property to process control map.
• A test interpretation sheet.
• A cement selection guide for common applications.

A GATI certificate recording what you attended, issued after the programme has run and attendance has been taken. Attending at least 80 per cent of the days earns a certificate of completion; attending less earns a certificate of attendance stating exactly what was attended.

Every certificate carries a code that anybody can check against GATI's own record, which is what makes it worth holding. It records participation. This site will not imply one it does not have.