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Sam Chen

Technical Director and Materials & Durability Lead at Mott MacDonald; engineer specializing in sustainable materials and concrete durability

May 27, 2026

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in Australia, and then we look at, uh, where we get, where we get fly ash from in Victoria specifically, and then we find that most of the, basically 100% of the fly ash we are using in Victoria, and, uh, it is from New South Wales or from Queensland, and then there is no local fly ash supply here in Victoria.
57:57
The reason is because of the coal we are using in the coal fire power plants we have here in Australia, uh, in Victoria.
58:04
We're, we're having, uh, brown coal.
58:06
And so the brown coal fly ash is not really suitable for concrete use because the v- uh, volume stability issue associated with the brown coal fly ash.
58:15
So we have to use a black coal, and which we can only get them from New South Wales and then Queensland.
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