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BS 8500 - Concrete

BS 8500 - Concrete, is the complementary British Standard to BS EN 206 - Concrete and was first published in March 2002. It provides substantial national provisions not covered in BS EN 206. Both documents replaced BS 5328, Concrete, in December 2003.

BS 8500 was updated in 2006, 2015 and 2023, the current version reflecting the availablility of more cement types.

Note that BS EN 206-1 (2000) and BS EN 206-9 (2010) were been revised and rationalised as a single Standard BS EN 206 (2013). 

BS 8500 is in two parts:

Part 1, Method of specifying and guidance for the specifier
Part 2, Specification for constituent materials and concrete.

Part 1 is for the specifier i.e. the person or body establishing the specification for the fresh and hardened concrete or who passes the specification to the producer, in other words the purchaser of the ready-mixed concrete.

Part 2 is for the producer and contains specification requirements for the producer

Acknowledgement: The Concrete Society