To the plenary session of the 71 technical committee (TC 71) "Concrete, reinforced concrete, prestressed concrete" of the international organization for standardization (ISO) in Moscow
The article contains information about the plenary session of ISO Technical Committee TC 71 on "Concrete, reinforced concrete and prestressed concrete” which held in Moscow from 28 to May 31, this year. In ISO standardization bodies from 165 countries are represented. The session in Moscow was attended by over 100 experts in the field of concrete from 25 countries including Russia, Japan, China, Brazil, Germany, United States, etc. To date, ISO/ TC 71 54 standards were developed, and 21 standards are under development. The meetings were considered normative documents regulating the requirements for concrete and reinforced concrete structures, as well as raw materials for their manufacture. The program also included issues of standardization of precast concrete structures, repair techniques of reinforced concrete structures, the use of composite materials, ecology of concrete and concrete structures lifecycle management. On the first day of the seminar ISO/TC 71, papers on the peculiarities of the Russian normative-technical base and the most topical issues in the development of global standardization in the field of reinforced concrete were presented. Other days the meetings of subcommittees of ISO/TC 71 such as test methods for concrete, concrete production and construction of reinforced concrete structures, performance requirements for concrete, calculation of reinforced concrete structures, reinforcing materials the current maintenance and repair, ecology concrete were held.