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CONCRETE in PORTUGAL: What Future?”
Jorge Santos Pato, APEB
ERMCO Meeting of Representatives
Cascais - 07/06/2013
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SUMMARY:
I - Ready Mixed Concrete: Statistics and Economics
II - Learning how to Survive
III -The Chamaleonic Vision
IV- Concrete Towards the Future
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CONCRETE in PORTUGAL: What Future?
APEB
- National Association of Rmc Producers founded in1985
- 19 voting members (concrete producers) and 10 associate
members (non producers of rmc)
- 80% of total national production of rmc
- Members: 145 plants
- Country (no members): 125 plants and 65 producers
- 2 Laboratories (Lisbon and Porto) for Testing materials
- 1 Laboratory for Metrology and calibration services
- Certified Professional Training and Auditing Services
- Member of ERMCO since 1989.
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Some Statistics and Economics Data:
- Cement Consumption
- Rmc Production in Portugal
- % Cement to Rmc
- % Cement in Bag
- % Cement vs Residential Buildings
- GDP
- Public Debt
- Unemployment
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Cement Consumption (2000-2012)
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Readymixed Concrete Production in Portugal
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Readymixed Concrete Production in Portugal
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% Cement to Ready Mixed Concrete
Year %
2002 26
2003 26
2004 28
2005 32
2006 32,5
2007 33,6
2008 35
2009 35
2010 37
2011 31
2012 24
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% Cement in Bag
Year %
2002 48,8
2003 50,1
2004 46,4
2005 44,1
2006 44,6
2007 43,8
2008 42,0
2009 41,7
2010 40,4
2011 41,9
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% Consumption of Cement - Residential Buildings
Year %
2002 60,8
2003 63,4
2004 61,9
2005 60,9
2006 62,7
2007 60,3
2008 57,8
2009 51,3
2010 53,6
2011 48,9
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GDP in Portugal (%) – (2001-2011)
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GDP (media 2001-2008) GDP (2009)
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Evolution of GDP in EU27 and in Portugal
Period 1996 -2012
EU27 Portugal
1996 : 1,7% 1996 : 3,4%
2012: - 0,6% 2012: - 2,7%
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Evolution of GDP in Portugal (2000 – 2012)
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Portuguese Public Debt (% of GDP)
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Unemployment % (2009 – 2012)
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Unemployment (200-2012)
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Unemployment in Construction Sector (2009-2012)
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Unemployment (April 2013)
General Youth (under 25 years)
Portugal 17,9% 42,5%
Euro Zone 12,2% 24,1%
EU 27 11,0% 23,5%
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Figures are disappointing and don’t predict a good
future for our Industry!
?
What can/shall we do?
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- Giving up, cross our arms, pray and wait for a
miracle?
or
…Learning how to survive?!
…Perhaps it sounds a bit dreamy or even poetic,
but there is still a meaningful lesson of survival we
must be focused on….
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Some Options for surviving:
- Begging for support (from who?);
- Find new original and valuable applications for
concrete;
- Learning with good examples from Mother
Nature...
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CONCRETE – An Endangered Species?
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Concrete is quickly becoming an endangered species!
So, perhaps we need a World Wild Fund, …also for Concrete!
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FLORAL CONCRETE ???
Why not?...
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CONCRETE – A Natural Option
QUESTION :
Is there anything in common between
the following images???
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A Lesson of SURVIVAL
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CONCRETE: What about the Future?
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“CHAMELEONIC CONCRETE”
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CONCRETE – “A CHAMELEONIC VISION”
CONCRETE, a Chameleonic Material!!!
…What differences and what similarities?!..
… We must learn from Mother Nature some lessons
that allow mankind to promote and optimize a more
useful and adequate implementation of construction
materials, to better integrate and adapt them to the
environment, in a holistic and successful way…
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CONCRETE – Towards the Future
I - Trends and Options
II - Targets and Conditioning Agents on the Use of Concrete
III - Relevant and Progressive Steps
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CONCRETE – Towards the Future
I – Trends and Options
Evolution of constituents (binders, additions, admixtures,
aggregates, recycled products and wastes, etc.)
Criativity in color, design, shape, texture, (Colored
concrete,textured, printed, patterned, etc.)
Alternatives with/for reinforced concretes with fibers
Synergies in current Special Concrete (high strengh, high
performance, light , selfcompacting, pervious, etc.)
Innovative Concrete: translucent, selfcleaning,
photocatalytic, “ultraporcrete”, “aerogel concrete”,
photoprinted, etc.
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CONCRETE – Towards the Future
II – Targets and Conditioning Agents on the Use
of Concrete
Public Opinion and “Mass Media”
Producers and Industry
Designers, Promotors and Undertakers
Materials
Users
Legislation
Education
Public Administration
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CONCRETE – Towards the Future
III – Relevant and Progressive Steps
From the defective perception to a friendly vision
From the lack of accurate information to a valuable reeducation
From a trifling contact to a professional approach
From unawareness and relaxation to rigor and requirements.
From a common structural material to an integrated solution
From the skeleton to the final coating and finishing
From just a volume to the architectonic/constructive solution
From conventional design and shapes to conceptual reveries
From traditional materials to innovative concrete
From industrial support to a real and objective sustainability
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Today, it’s not time for regrets, but to look for solutions,
and that is what all of us here have to do!
…So, Welcome to Cascais, have a pleasant sojourn and
let’s try to find some solutions!
THANK YOU!