Editorial: Special Issue on Cement and Concrete Science

On 26–28 August 2015 the 35th Cement and Concrete Science Conference (CCSC-35) was held, under the auspices of the Institute of Materials, Minerals and Mining (IOM3), at the University of Aberdeen, Scotland. The School of Engineering, the Centre for Innovative Building Materials and Technologies (CIBMT) and the Department of Chemistry, hosted the conference.

As in previous years, the conference brought the latest and most exciting developments in cement and concrete research to a diverse, international audience of academic and industrial researchers, the makers and users of these products, and anyone with an interest in these wonderful, intriguing and often perplexing materials. The range of topics covered spanned the mainstays of cement and concrete research, including hydration, micro-structure, strength, durability, test and measurement techniques, etc., developments in novel cements and clinkers, technically challenging topics such as atomistic modelling as well as structural, thermal and permeation/ionic transport performance modelling, and for the first time, special application areas like marine cementing and new areas affiliated to cement production technologies and sustainability.