Title of project: One stop shop for concrete information

Project leader & organisation undertaking research: Dr William Price (Tel: 01344-725705 Email: wprice@bca.org.uk ), Concrete Information Ltd (a BCA/Concrete Society joint venture)

Funding body: Department of Trade & Industry

Funding scheme: Partners in Innovation

Synopsis of project: This project will develop a one stop shop website for concrete information building on existing facilities of the partner organisations including:

• a concrete bookshop
• a basic encyclopaedia of concrete
• a directory of concrete specialist services
• access to a database of over 120,000 references on concrete
• a semi-expert system for answering frequently asked queries about concrete
• access to a database of University research on concrete
• links to other related websites.

Start date: October 2002

Finish date: April 2004

Deliverables: One stop shop website at www.concreteinfo.org

URL of project webpage: www.concreteinfo.org

Nature of IStructE support: Contribution in kind to the value of £4200 – representative to attend steering group meetings and review project outputs; assistance in promoting the One Stop Shop.