Concrete specialists from 24 countries met in Jalandhar, India under the header: "Concrete Research driving Profit and Sustainability". Georg Dirk contributed and delivered a paper looking at ways to increase the use of Fly Ash in concrete.
The conference was organized for the third time by various European and Indian Universities under the UKIERI program and presided by Prof. R.K. Dhir O.B.E of Birmingham University. Several hundred scientific papers on Concrete were presented during four days in three separate conference halls at the Dr. Ambedkar National Institute of Technology at Jalandhar.