The NRMCA April Internet Spotlight, good through Tuesday, May 6, is the Concrete In Practice (CIP) single set package. Order online today and receive 20% off. The regular member price is $30, Internet Special $24, plus shipping. Included in this set is the newest CIP topic and seven revised topics:

• (NEW) CIP 43 – Alkali Aggregate Reactions (AAR) discusses the causes for deleterious expansions due to alkali silica and alkali carbonate reactions in concrete, test methods, and methods of mitigating the problem – in the What? Why? And How? Format.

The following CIP topics have been revised to include more current information:

• (UPDATED) CIP 1 – Dusting Concrete Surfaces

• (UPDATED) CIP 2 – Scaling Concrete Surfaces

• (UPDATED) CIP 4 – Cracking Concrete Surfaces

• (UPDATED) CIP 5 – Plastic Shrinkage Cracking

• (UPDATED) CIP 6 – Joints in Concrete Slabs on Grade

• (UPDATED) CIP 26 – Jobsite Addition of Water

• (UPDATED) CIP 27 – Cold Weather Concreting

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Also, two new topics were also released in the Technology in Practice (TIP) series. The TIP series is intended for education of ready mixed concrete industry personnel while CIPs are typically directed toward users and customers of ready mixed concrete. The two new topics in the TIP series are:

• TIP 11 – Testing Concrete Cores

• TIP 12 – Slump Loss of Concrete 

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