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Acknowledgements In Chapter 1, Figures 1.2, 1.3 and 1.7 have been provided by the British Cement Association; Figure 1.4 was provided by Blue Circle Industries PLC; and Figures 1.1 and 1.5 were provided by Robert G. Blezard. The author of the chapter would also Hke to thank Mr A.E. Beety (Blue Circle Information and Patent Services) for assistance in locating references. In Chapter 12, Figure 12.1 was provided courtesy of Elkem Materials, while in Chapter 16 picture credits are due as follows: to Mid-Essex Aggregates Limited (Figure 16.6); Mr E.V. Walters of ECC Limited, retired (Figure 16.9); Transport Research Laboratory, Crowthorne, UK (Figure 16.23); Mr D. Palmer of the British Cement Association, retired (Figure 16.26); Mr D. Stark, Construction Technology Laboratories Inc., Skokie, IL, USA (Figure 16.27); and the Building Research Establishment, Crown Copyright (Figure 16.32).