Dr. KIM S. ELLIOTT, b 1953, was formerly a design and contract engineer with Trent Concrete Structures Ltd. one of the UK’s leading precast & prestressed concrete manufacturers. In 1980 he obtained Corporate Membership of The Institute of Civil Engineers (ICE), and was appointed to Project Engineer at The Tenth of Ramadam City, near Cairo in Egypt responsible for the initial design and development of a precasting works and precast housing. He did his PhD in Mechanical Engineering (1983-87) on the behaviour of steel tubular offshore structures. He is now Senior Lecturer in the School of Civil Engineering where he is Director of Postgraduate Studies, Supervising Civil Engineer for the ICE, and Head of the Structures Research Group within the School’s Centre for Infrastructure. Since 1987 he has been active in research into the behaviour of concrete materials and precast concrete structures, and has published 100 papers in journals and at conferences. He has supervised 15 PhD projects on a wide range of topics covering precast concrete frames, connections, composite frames, floor diaphragm action, fibre reinforced and recycled concrete. He is the author of the BCA’s Precast Frame Buildings Design Guide, published in 1992, a 625 page text book on Multi-Storey Precast Concrete Frame Structures first published in 1996, the 380 page Precast Concrete Structures by Butterworth-Heinemann, FIB Bulletin 19 on Precast Concrete in Mixed Construction (2002), FIB Bulletin 45 on Structural Connections on Precast Concrete Buildings in 2008 and Economic Frames Manual published by The UK Concrete Centre (2009). He has been part-time consultant to Hume Industries in Malaysia, Echo Prestress in South Africa, the Public Works Dept. in Kuala Lumpur, and to six precast concrete companies in the UK, where he is engaged in writing computer software according to Eurocodes. Dr Elliott is a member of the FIB Commission on Prefabrication where he has been convener of Task Group on precast concrete in mixed construction. From 1991-99 he was Chairman of the European research project COST C1 on Semi-Rigid Connection in Precast Concrete Structures. He has lectured on this subject in Australia (4 cities), South Africa (7 times in 5 cities), Brazil (3 times), Bahrain, Portugal, Spain, Singapore (4 times), Malaysia (5 times), Austria (3 times), Finland, and USA, including being a guest lecturer at 25 universities in Britain.

PRECAST CONCRETE FRAMED STRUCTURES FOR IBS

ABSTRACT

As the demand for improved performance targets of economy, speed, and defect free quality in multi-storey building construction increases, precast concrete is ideally suited to satisfying the demands when used in industrialized building systems (IBS). This is because the degree of prefabrication, using high quality materials and production methods and skilled labour in quality controlled conditions rather than immigrant site labour, is set to increase dramatically. A recent survey carried out by the fib Commission found that 75% of new buildings contain precast concrete, either as the primary structural material, or in the façade, or mixed with other materials