Well yesterday’s post certainly stimulated some debate on LinkedIn and I was feeling a little like the boy in Hans Christian Andersen’s Fable about the emperor’s clothes. I was labelled as ignorant, wrong-headed and uninformed but then somebody sent me a link to a presentation given by Karen Scrivener and it was reassuring to know I was not alone in my thoughts. For those of you who don’t know Karen, her Wikipedia page describes her as follows:
Karen Louise Scrivener is a material chemist known for her pioneering works in cementitious materials. She is the head of Laboratory of Construction Materials at Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne and served as the Editor-in Chief of the Cement and Concrete Research journal for 15 years.
Wikipedia (16/12/21)
I doubt very much whether the same adjectives will be applied to Karen but the message she gives is very similar to mine.
It's grey and goes hard 