What are the emerging trends and innovations in Concrete?

Reinforced concrete is concrete in which steel reinforcement bars ("rebars"), plates or fibers have been incorporated to strengthen a material that would otherwise be brittle. Post-Tensioning has new construction and retrofit applications. Designers use post-tensioning as a way to reinforce concrete by prestressing it. In prestressed members, compressive stresses are introduced into the concrete to reduce tensile stresses resulting from applied loads including the self weight of the member (dead load). Prestressing steel, such as strands, bars or wires, is used to impart compressive stresses to the concrete.

Dear friends, With the explosive growth in high-rise residential construction, the Load-Bearing Wall (LBW) system is gaining recognition. The walls and slab are poured simultaneously when using the innovative tunnelform construction method. Since the forms are stripped in 24 hours, the daily cycle meets the demand of fast-track construction for repetitive cell layouts, synonymous with many hotel and condominium projects.

there are self compacting self curing concretes eliminating the need of vibration and curing , flowing concrete which can be pumbed from the bottom of a form work , light weight/ foam concrete for  insulation and acoustic purpose. -- thanks to construction chemical industry