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Cement (and concrete) is a fundamental requirement for a modern, developed economy.
Modern day Portland Cement was brought into existence only during the early nineteenth century. However mankind has used burnt lime and clay as cementing material for construction purposes through many centuries. Most famous ancient structures in Rome were constructed using lime as the cement material.
Cement began to be used increasingly in the second half of the nineteenth century and was the foundation of the huge economic development that occurred in the twentieth century with the building of modern cities and infrastructure.
Its modern uses include:
- building (floors, beams, columns, roofing, piles, bricks, mortar, panels, plaster)
- transport (roads, pathways, crossings, bridges, sleepers, viaducts, tunnels, stabilisation, runways, parking)
- water (pipes, culverts, kerbing, drains, canals, weirs, dams, tanks, pools)
- civil (piers, docks, retaining walls, silos, warehousing, poles, pylons, fencing)
- agriculture (buildings, processing, housing, feedlots, irrigation)
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