“As in the world practice, quartz sands are used in the country for the production of porous concretes. However, their natural stocks are not much and to its chemical-mineralogical makeup it does not meets the standards for lime concretes,” instructs UT correspondent Professor at the department of General Technical Disciplines of the Chemical-Technical Faculty Rahimboy Rahimov. “We have already offered the technology of production of these demanded building materials that allows the replacement of quartz sand with loess or loess-like loams. Simultaneously, we solve the issue on providing with enough quantity of raw materials and hardening, as well as exploitation characteristics of finished building materials.”

The idea about the development of such technology in the Urganch State University has been matured for many years. Research works had been conducted, in accordance of which students had to implement them in practice. Three years ago the project was nominated for the state grant for conducting research works that would assist to finish the idea. The project was supported by the government and the Public Corporation Urganch Building Materials on the base of which the offered technologies were tested.

Students and young academics have actively partaken in research works. Rahimboy Rahimov says on it the following: “For the scientific reasoning of the project we had to conduct routine study of reason of crack initiations in walling, geodesic observance of civil, social and industrial objects. One person could not manage to do this all. Thus, students rendered their help. Especially active were Sarvarbek Quchqorov, Maqsudbek Sayimov, Dilmurod Matnazarov, Elyor Ahmedov. Junior research fellow Ahmed Karakulov hugely helped us as well. In laboratory he tested our hypotheses of technological solution of hardening of bonding of lime-sand brick from off-grade barchan’s sand and active admixtures with masonry mortar for construction of buildings.”