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Price: $50.00
Description: After successfully completing this chapter you will understand:
- Water/Cementitious ratios and effects upon concrete
- The differences between entrapped and entrained air
- What Self-Consolidating Concrete (SCC) is
- Desirable properties of fresh and hardened concrete
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What is PQS?
NPCA’s Production & Quality School (PQS) is a comprehensive program devoted to addressing the fundamentals of quality precasting. Taught by some of the most knowledgeable experts in the precast industry, the PQS course covers each important step of the concrete production process from start to finish.
Session topics include:
- The fundamentals of mix design
- Handling and placement
- Curing and testing
- Pre-pour and post-pour operations
- Quality control
- Reinforcing
- Vibration/consolidation
Who should take PQS Online?
Whether you are a Quality Control Inspector or a production employee, the PQS
course has valuable information to offer for everyone who enrolls. Past participants
have included production personnel, first-line supervisors, engineers, upper-level managers and
DOT employees, among others.
How is it structured?
PQS Online is broken into nine chapters allowing the participant to take those chapters that are relevant to him/her. Users may take one chapter or all nine. There are no prerequisites or required order for the chapters. See below for an overview of the included chapter.
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Chapter 4 – Concrete Mixes
After successfully completing this chapter you will understand:
- Water/Cementitious ratios and effects upon concrete
- The differences between entrapped and entrained air
- What Self-Consolidating Concrete (SCC) is
- Desirable properties of fresh and hardened concrete
Speaker:
Mel Marshall
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