ABSTRACT
The authors believe that a cash penalty basis can provide fully fair and effective regulation of concrete strength (and thereby, quality). However, many in the industry or its clients have been reluctant to accept it. The most pressing reason why concrete might desirably incur a penalty is in fairness to other suppliers who allowed in their quotation to supply the specified strength in full and thereby failed to obtain the contract to supply. If well-intentioned suppliers do not see this as an advantage, then so be it. However, the section remains in the book to satisfy the authors’ conscience that they have done everything reasonably possible to bring about this desirable reform.
