The first UHPC Ultra High Performance Binder and HPC High Performance Binder was developed more than 30 years ago. Both binders systems have been improved or new ones have been developed and produced in accordance with the requirements due to their experience in a wide variety of application areas and industries worldwide. From the beginning, our UHPC and HPC binders were produced as mortar, castable and shotcrete.
These UHPC and HPC material qualities could offer enormous advantages for manufacturing as well as in the use of precast concrete parts. Depending on the HPC or UHPC material use, our customers have already made cost objections in the production of precast concrete elements between 15 - 30%.
Architects design extraordinary prefabricated buildings according to customer requirements, whether for private individuals or for office and industrial buildings. The complete construction and facade elements are already manufactured and prepared weeks in advance in a precast plant, so that only a few days are needed on the construction site for a complete completion. The advantage is the very small footprint on site. The elements come with trucks in the correct assembly order on the construction site. A crane positions the elements and very few fitters are needed for assembly. It can be installed all year round, regardless of the weather contitions.
- UHPC has many commercial as well as technical advantages over standard concrete for the production of precast concrete elements:
- We produce HPC and UHPC materials with a strength of 80 MPa (11600 psi) to (240 MPa 34800 psi) The information is without fiber reinforcement. With fiber reinforcement, the values are much higher
- Our UHPC materials reach 70% of their maximum nominal strength within 48 hours.
- Faster strength developments are possible on customer request.
- We only need sand, not gravel, to process HPC and UHPC binders. With our UHPC Desert Sand Binder, desert sand can also be processed without any problems.
- UHPC concrete is extremely resistant to most environmental influences
- Joints, edges do not require reworking. The more precise the mold, the more precise the HPC or UHPC element.
- With the use of fibre reinforcement it is possible to create very thin structures of high strength.
- Very good flow properties for casting complicated geometry and filigree surface structures.
- HBC and UHPC concretes do not form pores and are usually self-compacting. This means that surface structures can be achieved that cannot be achieved with standard concrete.
- The nanotechnology development of our HBC and UHPC binders enables extremely fine surface structures to be created.
- Even small layers already lead to an absolute waterproofness.
- For prestressed elements, the pre-tensioning force of HPC and UHPC material can be chosen to be much higher due to their very high strength than standard concrete.
- HPB and UHPC concretes are extremely resistant to corrosion, de-icing salt and frost, which leads to a much longer life expectancy than standard concrete UHPC many times exceeds concrete, marble,limestone, sandstone and many other natural stones.
- It is not necessary to add additives.
- Customer requirements such as burglary resistant, fire resistant, storm resistant and acoustic properties as well as noise reduction can be easily met.
- Combinations with a high-performance insulationlayer reduce energy costs by several times compared to wooden houses or brick houses. The required wall thicknesses are only a fraction of comparable housing designs.
- Double walls
- Pre stressed elements
- Tubes
- Bridgedeck elements
- Stairs
- Piles
- Supports
- Tunnel segment
- Facade elements
- Balconies
- Sea defence units
- Floor tiles in large geometries
- Security elements
- Vertical garden (facade) elements
- Sewage pipes and box culverts
- Floating elements
- Construction elements
- Leight weigth insulation walls
- Roof construction
