Unusual material with unusual residental solutions for unusual residential areas

Unusual material

With our UHPC binder + desert sand + very little water we can produce a concrete with a compressive strength of up to 100 MPa. So better than many standard concrete qualities. UHPC desert sand concrete is completely waterproof, corrosion-resistant and rot-proof. Desert sand concrete can be easily made with most desert sands. Desert sand is currently free.

Unusual living solution

The stone system is a building system for small children. With this fantastic system, you can intuitively build without having special knowledge, that is already shown by our children.
If you enlarge this system and the stones made of UHPC desert sand concrete, you can easily build simple and, if necessary, complicated constructions quickly without blueprint and remove again. With standard concrete such stone systems are not possible because they are not sustainable enough. With the high strength UHPC desert sand concrete, even very thin-walled load-bearing stones are possible. For the production of the stones only a few different cast forms are necessary.

Unusual residential areas
UHPC building block systems can be used without any problem in all areas of the world. Due to the

large cavity volume of the stones they are extremely well insulated against cold as well as against heat. They can be used in the desert, in the damp jungle and in extremely cold environments.

UHPC Binder systems development for customer

Experience and Know how - Everything from one source
We develop new innovative UHPC binder systems for a wide range of requirements for our customers. These materials developments incorporate more than twenty years of worldwide experience in the development, production and application of UHPC materials.
We have developed, produced and applied UHPC products for architecture, design, facades, offshore, anti-corrosion, wear protection, flooring, power plants, steel mills, mining, shipping, military, engineering, airports, port facilities, etc.

You would like to have your own UHPC binder production?
We advise and assist you

• In the design of the production plant
• Raw material evaluation of local raw materials
• Research and selection of alternative raw materials
• Assistance with the procurement of production facilities
• Production preparation and production start
• Accompaniment of local production by our specialists
• Training of local staff through workshops
• Introduction of a material and quality inspection

We develop according to your requirement specification for you

• UHPC binder systems for use as mortar, casting compound, shotcrete products
• UHPC binder systems for continuous temperatures up to 1200°C
• UHPC binder systems with fast-curing properties
• UHPC binding systems as lightweight concrete
• UHPC binder systems, impermeable to water and underwater applications

We produce for you according to your recipe your UHPC quality as ready mix in standard paper bags, plastic containers, bigbags or silo trucks in any quantity you want.

We can be your development partner
You have innovative, extraordinary UHPC material, product or application ideas and are looking for a development partner. Please contact us at any time. With your ideas and our experience, interesting future-oriented products should be created for you.

UHPC Construction test for the deep sea use

Research in deep sea construction

For more than a year, we participated in a research project of a German university. It was about the exploration of future concrete constructions for the deep sea.

For a few weeks, the result is available. The UHPC Binder material manufactured by us passed the tests by far from other binder materials.
The reasearch team of the university did models made of different concrete materials The models have been tested for corrosion, leaks and pressure resistance. The compressive strength should be so high that the concrete construction can withstand a sea pressure of 3500 m /2.17 mi permanently.

 

At the end of the long-term test, there were no cracks or other damage to the UHPC concrete construction.

 

Research in deep-sea energy storage
Another interesting research project is the construction of compressed air storage balls for the deep sea. The first concrete ball was manufactured in Germany by the Hochtief company and successfully tested as part of a research program. A very good standard concrete quality was used, but it reaches its material limits with a diameter of over 3 m.

One problem that still needs to be solved is the limited transportability of such hollow spheres due to their diameter.
For commercial use, the diameter must be larger. This means that the hollow spheres have to be manufactured on site, which is very costly, or the hollow sphere is manufactured from several prefabricated UHPC concrete elements, similar to the tower elements in wind power plants.

UHPC Offshore grouting could be an interesting alternative solution to this standard concrete here.

Why?

UHPC has a very high compressive strengt of over 200 MPa / 29000 psi
UHPC has been used in the offshore sector for more than 30 years.
UHPC is absolutely resistant to salt water
UHPC is easy to pump and is self-compacting
UHPC constructions can withstand much greate external and internal pressure loads than standard concrete. Due to the enormous compressive strength, the necessary wall thicknesses can be reduce  depending on type of construction
UHPC is waterproof from 10 mm thickness. Steel reinforcement is much more corrosion-proof in UHPC than in concrete
UHPC has an extremely low to no pore volume.
As far as the heat development during pressure build-up is concerned, the standard version of UHPC is temperature resistant up to 450°C. In the high temperature version, UHPC is permanent temperature resistant up to over 1000°C / 1832°F.