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Price: $50.00
Description: After successfully completing this chapter you will understand:
- The essentials for producing quality concrete
- The importance of quality aggregates and how to adjust for aggregate moisture
- How to calculate a Fineness modulus
- Characteristics and uses of admixtures including air entrainers, superplaticizers, retarders, corrosion inhibitors, etc.
- The five types of cement and their applications
- Water quality implications for quality 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 1 – Introduction and Concrete Materials
After successfully completing this chapter you will understand:
- The essentials for producing quality concrete
- The importance of quality aggregates and how to adjust for aggregate moisture
- How to calculate a Fineness modulus
- Characteristics and uses of admixtures including air entrainers, superplaticizers, retarders, corrosion inhibitors, etc.
- The five types of cement and their applications
- Water quality implications for quality concrete
Speaker:
Brian Miller
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