UHPC combat concrete for bunkers and security rooms

Over 20 years ago, we were very involved in the security industry and military. We tried a lot of things
successfully and carried out some interesting projects. Then it was very quiet for many years and we successfully focused on other projects and markets.
For the last two years we have been asked again from non-civilian areas. Now we are developing our UHPC combat concrete further in all areas, especially for safety or bunker construction, both above ground, under water and underground. In the development of UHPC materials, we have to take modern weapon systems into account. Several hundred tonnes of special UHPC combat binders are now being shipped by us for testing and the worst conditions.

There is also interest in UHPC material for civil shelters of different load types. Here we will have to meet new regulations and material tests.

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Phone: 0049 176 601 73146
E-mail: info@wpe-dk.dk
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UHPC concrete history in floating constructions and outlook for the future

More than twenty years ago, a very special UHPC binder was developed that had a density far below 1 in order to be able to build ship hulls with a weight of several hundred tonnes. In Asia, several large hulls have been successfully built with this UHPC material. The hulls of this special material had many advantages over a traditional steel construction. They were much lighter which increased the loading weight, they were absolutely resistant to salt water which reduced the inspections to almost zero and thus saved immense costs. UHPC concrete was easy to form and, especially in large quantities, reduced production costs and times. But one of the biggest advantages of this particular UHPC was that it was unsinkable. Even in the event of catastrophic damage, the components would still float, providing an enormously high level of safety compared to a steel structure that would sink instantly.

After all these years, we were approached by architects for this special binder material for their floating cities. The question was also whether we could produce this special binder from back then again for today's floating constructions and possibly also improve it with newer elements.
This topic was so interesting for us that we pulled out the old documents from our drawers. It turned out that modern raw materials and elements could improve the recipe of that time. Today, we believe that we will be able to offer a new, modern binder recipe ready for production in a few months.
It would be possible to produce this special binder in most coastal countries.

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WPE DK - UHPC Training sessions for partner and customer

The first two UHPC training sessions ended this year. It started this year with our Swiss partners. All 10
basic modules were worked through. That's about 500 pages of paper. Our Swiss partners have now also booked the training with the detail modules for the second half of the year.  

The second UHPC training took place with our Polish partners. All 10 basic modules were also completed in this training. In three months we will meet again for a practical training with four modules.

The UHPC training sessions are also interesting for us when discussing local or country-specific UHPC applications. With this information we can adapt our UHPC binder system exactly to the local requirements.

UHPC concrete in combination with Amnethyst and other gemstone for a special design of our Manufacture Studio

For a larger project in our UHPC manufacturing studio, a certain amount of amethyst was needed. We
found the quality we required in Africa. In this case we will not use a classical cut amethyst but a special processed amnethyst.  

Only in the case of UHPC jewellery requested by our customers do we resort to a large extent to classically cut amethysts.