This paper presents the results of the physical and chemical properties of a thermally activated alumino-silicate material (MK), and deals with the properties of fresh and hardened concrete incorporating this material. The properties of fresh concrete investigated included workability, bleeding, setting time, and autogenous temperature rise. The properties of the hardened concrete investigated included compressive, splitting-tensile and flexural strengths, Young's modulus of elasticity, drying shrinkage, resistance to chloride-ion penetration, freezing and thawing, and saltscaling resistance. The properties of the MK concrete were also compared with those of the control portland cement concrete and the silica fume concrete.The test results indicate that the MK material is highly pozzolanic and can be used as a supplementary cementing material to produce high-performance concrete. Although it requires a higher dosage of the superplasticizer and air-entraining admixture compared with that of the control concrete, the MK concrete can be produced with satisfactory slump, air content, and setting time. The concrete incorporating 10% MK had higher strength at all ages up to 180 days compared with the control concrete; in comparison with the silica fume concrete the MK concrete showed a faster strength development at early ages, but had lower strength after 28 days. At 28 days, the MK concrete had somewhat higher splitting-tensile and flexural strengths, Young's modulus of elasticity, and lower drying shrinkage compared with that of the control and the silica fume concretes. The resistance of the MK concrete to the chloride-ion penetration was significantly higher than that of the control concrete, but similar to that of the silica fume concrete. The MK concrete showed excellent performance in the freezing and thawing test. The performance of the MK concrete subjected to the de-icing salt scaling test was similar to that of the silica fume concrete, but marginally inferior to the control concrete.