EN206 provides detailed information about the various aspects of concrete design, production and conformity to a specification, namely the European Standard of EN206.

EN206-1:2000 is a European Standard.

EN 206-1 is a 'framework standard' with national provisions, detailed requirements, rules of application etc being supported by a complementary national British Standard, which for the UK is BS 8500, Complementary British Standard to BS EN 206-1. The old British Standard for concrete, BS 5328, was withdrawn in December 2003 and replaced by BS EN 206-1, published in 2000, and the UK complementary standard BS 8500, published in February 2002.

Further information can be obtained from various sources.

• EN Standards
• The Concrete Society
• The Concrete Centre
• Quarry Produts Association
• Everything you ever wanted to know about concrete but were afraid to ask? (US site sorry)

Guidance on the application of the EN 206-1 conformity rules

From a concrete suppliers point of view, one of the best sources of information about the application of EN206-1, is a document produced by the QPA. This was used as a reference document during the construction of the DataSeen EN206-1 concrete conformity system.

The publication by a Task group comprising of:-

• T A Harrison - Quarry products Association
• S Crompton - RMC Readymix Ltd (Cemex)
• C Eastwood - RMC Readymix Ltd (Cemex)
• G Richardson - Lafarge Aggregates Ltd
• R Sym - SignalsfromNoise.com

QPA document

Quarry Products Association