Indian Concrete Institute (ICI) is the national organization of engineering professionals, employed in concrete

Concrete

Concrete is a composite construction material, composed of cement and other cementitious materials such as fly ash and slag cement, aggregate , water and chemical admixtures.The word concrete comes from the Latin word...

 construction and associated research in India

India

India , officially the Republic of India , is a country in South Asia. It is the seventh-largest country by geographical area, the second-most populous country with over 1.2 billion people, and the most populous democracy in the world...

. It was founded in 1982 in Chennai

Chennai

Chennai , formerly known as Madras or Madarasapatinam , is the capital city of the Indian state of Tamil Nadu, located on the Coromandel Coast off the Bay of Bengal. Chennai is the fourth most populous metropolitan area and the sixth most populous city in India...

 following a resolution in the International Seminar and Exhibition on ‘Modernization of Concrete Practices’ organized jointly by the Structural Engineering Research Centre (SERC)

Structural Engineering Research Centre

Structural Engineering Research Centre , Chennai is one of the 39 constituent laboratories of the Council of Scientific and Industrial Research in India. It has been able to build excellent facilities and expertise for analysing, designing and testing structures and structural components...

 and Anna University

Anna University

Anna University was a premier technical university in Tamil Nadu, India. Anna University was formed on September 4, 1978, as a unitary university that integrated four technical institutions in the city of Chennai , including the College of Engineering, Guindy, Alagappa College of Technology,...

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The ICI imparts training to working professionals in changing technologies in concrete constructions, promote research work in concrete technologies, publish journals on research finding, newer technologies and solution for practical problems, collaborate with agencies employed in concrete construction, research and associated manufacturers for better adoption of the technology by working professionals.