Tentative Conference Program:
           
  Monday, December 07,  2009      
  17:00 - 21:00 Registration      
    Reception      
           
  Tuesday, December 08, 2009      
  7:30 - 8:20 Registration      
  8:20 - 8:45 Opening Remarks      
  Chairman and Secretary      
           
  SESSION 1:     SESSION 2:  
           
  8:45 - 10:30 Mix design and Standards   11:00 - 12:35 Materials and Performance
  Chairman: Joost Wallraven   Chairman: Hussein Basma
           
    Past, Present, and Future of SCC     Guidelines for Design and Construction of SCC for Precast, Prestressed Concrete Members
    Shigeyoshi Nagataki     Kamal H. Khayat
    Aichi Institute of Technology Japan     Universié de Sherbroooke, Canada
           
    Rheology and Mix Design of SCC     Friendlier SCC through Smart Dynamic Construction
    Olafur Wallevik     Bryan Barragan
    Innovation Center, Iceland     BASF Europe
           
  10:30 - 11:00 Break     Performance-Based Specifications for Self-Compacting Concretes in the Gulf Region Determined
          Jon C. Knights
          Halcrow Group Ltd.; U.K.
           
        12:45 - 14:45 Lunch and Award Ceremony
           
  SESSION 3:     SESSION 4:  
           
  14:45 - 16:00 Production and Control   16:30 - 18:00 Pumping
  Chairman: Shigeyoshi Nagataki   Chairman: James Aldred
           
Future Trends in the Processing of Ready-Mixed High-Strength SCC   Pumping of SCC under Extreme Conditions
Harald Beitzel   Harald Beitzel
    Institut für Bauverfahrens- und Umwelttechnik, Germany     Institut für Bauverfahrens- und Umwelttechnik, Germany
           
Water in SCC Production - Its Importance, How to Accurately Measure it, and the Benefits of Automated Water Control   Pumping Trials of C90 SCC in Qatar
    David Serra     Said Jodeh (Al Wataniya Concrete)
Gabriel Nassar (Sodamco)
    Hydronix Limited, UK     Qatar
           
16:00 - 16:30 Break   Can Ordinary Vibrated Concrete and Self-Consolidating Concrete be Treated in the Same Way Concerning Pumpability?
          Dimitri Feys
          U. De Sherbrooke; Canada
           
        19:30 - 22:00 Banquet
           
Wednesday, December 09, 2009  
           
  SESSION 5:     SESSION 6:  
8:45 - 10:30 Design and Specifications 11:00 - 12:15 Performance Under Field Conditions
  Chairman: Olafur Wallevik   Chairman: Fouad Yazbeck
           
    Self-Compacting Concrete: Properties, Development and Code Recommendations     Al Turki Business Park (Dhahran, Saudi Arabia) - A Fully SCC Project
    Jost Wallraven     Redwan Amin Hameed
    Delft University of Technology, The Netherlands     Saudi Readymix Concrete; Saudi Arabia
           
    Practical and Successful SCC Application in the Precast Concrete Industry     Investigation of the Combination of Migrating Corrosion Inhibitors with Superpacticizers and/or Self –Leveling Concretes to Protect Reinforcement Embedded in Concrete
F. Surico   Jessi Meyer
    Mapei; Europe     Cortec Corporation; USA
           
    Formwork Pressure Exerted by Self-Consolidating Concrete     Overview of Field Demonstration
    Kamal H. Khayat     Rabih Fakih
    Université de Sherbrooke, Canada     Grey Matters; UAE
           
  10:30 - 11:00 Break   SESSION 7:  
    12:45 - 17:00 On Site Demonstration
        Chairman: Rabih Fakih
           
          Live Demonstration for SCC casted on site
           
  Thursday, December 10, 2009      
         
  SESSION 8:     SESSION 9:  
  8:45 - 10:30 Case Studies   11:00 - 12:30 Discussion Forum
  Chairman: Osama Abdulbari   Chairman: Kamal Khayat
           
    Performance of Concrete used in Field Demonstration     What is stopping SCC from being Widely Used in UAE Projects?
    Rabih Fakih     Wassim Mansour
Grey Matters, UAE      Readymix Abu Dhabi; UAE
         
    Laboratory Testing and Field Monitoring of Self-Consolidating Concrete Drilled Shafts     Discussion Forum: Barriers and Future of SCC in the Middle East
Hani Nassif
    The State University of New Jersey, Rutgers; USA   12:30 - 12:45 Closing remarks 
    In-Situ Properties of SCC in a Thick Concrete Raft in Dubai    
    James Aldred    
    GHD, UAE    
         
    Environmentally Sustainable SCC    
    Abu Saleh    
     Xtramix; UAE    
         
    Development and Performance of ECO-SCC    
    Olafur Wallevik    
    Innovation Center; Iceland    
         
  10:30 - 11:00 Break    
         
 
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