EFCA Members and Committees

EFCA is a Federation of National Associations. Members attending EFCA meetings represent their country association, not their company. EFCA develops a European consensus on admixture related issues. These are then promoted at local level with national standards organisations and other national concrete organisations including those for ready mix, precast and National Concrete Platforms. At European level they are promoted at CEN, CEPMC and at the European Concrete Platform (ECP).

Technical and Environmental work

EFCA has separate committees covering this important work and further information can be found on the COMMITTEE page of the main menu.

Publications

EFCA has produced a number of publications covering EPD (Environmental Product Declarations) technical matters such as Self-Compacting concrete and Environmental reports. These publications are available as free downloads and can be found on the ‘PUBLICATIONS’ page of the main menu. There is also some basic information on admixture types which can be found on the 'ADMIXTURES' page of the main menu.

National Admixture News

Several of the National Admixture Associations have an English Language page on their web sites. Use the links on the ‘MEMBERS’ pages of this web site.

The Concrete Platform

EFCA is a member of the Concrete Platform, a group of key European concrete related associations who co-operate in promoting concrete use and innovation. The platform helps to co-ordinate work on EU, EC and CEN issues of mutual interest. This includes Sustainability, the Environment, Life Cycle information, REACH, Dangerous Substances legislation and the EAS for Drinking Water. The Platform is also involved in other European projects including EcoServe, INTEND, EXTEND and the European Platform on LCA.

CEPMC

This organisation is the main focus for exchange of information between the construction industry and the European Commission. EFCA are associate members and contribute to a number of their relevant committees and mirror groups.

EFCC

This new European Federation aims to co-ordinate the activities of the Construction Chemicals industry on matters of European Legislation. EFCA has recently become a member.

CEN

EFCA is active on several technical committees including TC104/SC3 for admixtures where an EFCA member is chairman. Most of the admixture standards are now published as harmonised standards at AoC level 2+. The Admixture committee is currently amending the standards to take account of changes in the industry and other standards that have occurred during the 5 years since they were first released. It is also working with other CEN TC’s to include additional requirements that may result from the legislation on ‘construction products in contact with drinking water’ and ‘release of regulated dangerous substances’.