| | NOVEMBER 20228The Indian construction chemicals industry is called a sunrise industry since it is growing at a significant rate. This is mainly because of the increase in government investments in infrastructural projects coupled with growing construction spending across states in India. Furthermore, increasing government initiatives that include Housing for all, Smart city, Make-in-India, and a few other initiatives are anticipated to fuel the demand for construction chemicals across several applications sectors. Construction chemicals & waterproofing are widely used for infrastructure projects. These include airport buildings, bridges & flyovers, overhead bridges, roads & highways construction, and more. Waterproofing is a great challenge to civil engineers in various situations since poor waterproofing not only causes inconvenience to the occupants but ineffective or absence of waterproofing decreases the durability of structures through corrosion of reinforcement. Waterproofing membranes are being used across the board in a multitude of infrastructure projects. While the roofing applications account for a market share of more than thirty ENHANCING THE DURABILITY OF CONCRETE STRUCTURES THROUGH WATERPROOFINGTHE PANORAMA
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