Next week Bradley Staniforth will be attending the 42nd Annual Cement and Concrete conference in London presenting two pieces of work. The first is the culmination of some accelerated weathering tests of phyllite concrete. Concrete made from phyllite has been associated with serious degradation within the County of Donegal affecting thousands for properties. However, there are some outstanding questions related to degradation mechanisms. The completion of these tests and petrographic examination of the final cores (see e.g. below) presents a very important clarification on the long-term stability of the cores, showing as it does that these would not be classed as mortgageable concrete block by the RICS standard.
More can be read about this work here
The second piece of work is a poster on regulation, risk and conveyancing in Irish defective concrete. This covers the primary risk window (see below) for when properties were built containing deleterious concrete, how that defective concrete relates to the key EN12620 guidelines on total sulphur values in different contexts, and then implications for conveyancing.
More can be read about this work here
If you are attending the conference please do get in contact with Bradley. Equally if you are interested in the work please let us know.
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