CONCRETE in PORTUGAL: What Future?” · 7-06-2013 ERMCO Meeting of Representatives, Cascais -...

CONCRETE in PORTUGAL: What Future?”

Jorge Santos Pato, APEB

ERMCO Meeting of Representatives

Cascais - 07/06/2013

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CONCRETE in PORTUGAL: What Future?

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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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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.




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)



Readymixed Concrete Production in Portugal



Readymixed Concrete Production in Portugal



% 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



% 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



% 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



GDP in Portugal (%) – (2001-2011)



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%



Evolution of GDP in Portugal (2000 – 2012)





Portuguese Public Debt (% of GDP)

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Unemployment % (2009 – 2012)



Unemployment (200-2012)



Unemployment in Construction Sector (2009-2012)



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%



Figures are disappointing and don’t predict a good

future for our Industry!

?

What can/shall we do?



- 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….



Some Options for surviving:

- Begging for support (from who?);

- Find new original and valuable applications for

concrete;

- Learning with good examples from Mother

Nature...


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!


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


CONCRETE: What about the Future?


“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…


CONCRETE – Towards the Future

I - Trends and Options

II - Targets and Conditioning Agents on the Use of Concrete

III - Relevant and Progressive Steps



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.



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



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



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!

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