Introduction to concrete building products
Practical Action
Taxes and rates
Loan repayment and interest
Transport
Other costs
Total spent
Income minus spending
Amount banked
Amount in stock
* Reference should be made to the bill or invoice, e.g. printed on a book of sheets of invoices, held
separately.
A cumulative total of daily surplus and loss should also be maintained to assist in preparing the
end of year financial records.
Note: some quantities appear in more than one table. This is for completeness and to facilitate
cross checking.
References and further reading
Alternatives to Portland Cement Practical Action Technical Brief
Appropriate Building Materials R Stulz & K Mukerji Practical Action Publishing 1993
Rural Building Course TOOL Practical Action Publishing 2003
• Müller C et al, Training Manual Manufacturing of Concrete Floor / Pavement Tiles and
Concrete Hollow Blocks, International Labour Office, Geneva, January 2006
• The Cement & Concrete Institute in South Africa has produced a number of free
downloads on a several cement and concrete topics. This includes the guide Concrete
Basics for Building (2004) - This mainly covers concrete materials, properties of
concrete and in-situ casting of concrete. Other relevant publications from C&CI include:
Concrete for Precasting Small Items (2007), Making Small Garden Ornaments in
Concrete (2006), How to Make Concrete Bricks & Blocks (2006),
The Manufacture of Concrete Paving Blocks (2009), Details of other documents for
download can be found at:http://www.cnci.org.za/EN/Content.aspx/Pages/Publications
Cement & Concrete Institute
Block 'D' Lone Creek
Waterfall Office Park
Bekker Road
Midrand
PO Box 168
Halfway House
1685
South Africa
Tel: 011 315 0300
Fax: 011 315 0584 / 315 8180
E-mail: info@cnci.org.za
• National Concrete Masonry Association (NCMA), Manufacture of Concrete Masonry
Units, Publication OP 002, 1959 (priced publication),
NCMA, 13750 Sunrise Valley Drive
Herndon, VA 20171-4662
USA
Tel: 703.713.1900
Fax: 703.713.1910
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