Construction chemicals has expanded its range to ease the workmanship in demanding situations at various stages of construction.Today, every full-fledged construction chemicals manufacturer produces 50-100 various construction chemicals, generally divided into: Water proofing compounds; tile fixing adhesives and joint filers; repair and renovation products; admixtures for concrete and mortars; coating and protection products; construction and workmanship aids.Codes and standardsGenerally, construction chemicals are thought of when the structure is leaking or in distress or in situations when some extraordinary requirements are expected out of structural member such as high strength bridge girder or superior industrial floor, etc. For creating safe healthy structures, we need to revise our age old meaningless building codes and civil engineering practices and over haul the civil engineering syllabus in the engineering colleges to incorporate the latest technology and available materials. We not only need to create new codes for civil engineering but also for construction chemicals, so that wrong materials do not enter the construction arena putting the structures to risk. Construction chemicals in IndiaToday, a construction chemicals professional is a practical civil engineer and a chemical engineer rolled into one irrespective of his academic qualifications. Today, we see constructions chemicals executives moving on various sites providing solutions through their knowledge irrespective of whether they have been able to sell some product of their company or not. They help in fine-tuning the concrete mix designs for achieving desired workability and strength and suggesting the precautionary measures to be exercised in achieving end results in various aspects.     IndustryConstruction chemicals industry is knowledge based industry which has got to go on evolving itself with new products, technologies and specifications to keep the construction industry going. Today, spurious integral waterproofing compounds and tile adhesives and tile joint filers are being manufactured and sold in the market by the unorganised sector in such quantities that the organised sector can hardly catch up. Unfortunately, this industry is without any support from civil engineering fraternity, architects, specifiers and the government. Because of non-recognition and lack of knowledge about the importance of this industry, every manufacturer is fighting his own battle with the Central Excise or sales tax departments, to explain the classification of his product, which is not easy anyway even for an engineer to understand. ConclusionIn an effort to safeguards their interest, construction chemicals manufacturers have finally been able to form an association – the Construction Chemicals Manufacturers Association (CCMA). This association, under the able leadership of its current president, is in touch with various organisations like FICCI, BIS, Architects Associations, Civil engineering Associations, etc, to get a deserved status for this industry from the government, removing mindless bureaucratic hurdles faced by this industry in its classification under excise and sale-tax and to get the requisite specifications incorporated through codes and relevant specification documents. The sensitiveness of this industry, its utility in the construction and nation building, demands that it be treated slightly differently with other manufacturers and the government needs to simply support it.  (Communication by the management of the company)