BELGAUM: A national seminar focussing on various ways of utilising fly ash in civil engineering applications will be organised by the civil engineering department of KLES's College of Engineering & Technology here next week.

The former Editor of Indian Concrete Journal, V.R. Kulkarni will inaugurate the two-day seminar, commencing on March 9. Vice-Chancellor of Visvesvaraya Technological University K. Balaveera Reddy will be present. B.S. Raghuprasad of the Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore, will deliver the keynote address.

According to the principal of the college, the seminar would focus on conveying a message to all those involved in civil engineering activities such as construction of roads and buildings that fly ash could be a "resource material". Fly ash was considered as an industrial waste and responsible for environmental pollution. But, efforts by several research organisations has given a new dimension to this waste material.

Fly ash is being widely used in the manufacture of cement hollow bricks. Many experts and researchers on fly ash will present their findings during the seminar.

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