Heat problems on airports

The climate is changing, the summers are getting much hotter. The summers are getting so hot that
infrastructure constructions such as concrete roads and asphalt roads are reaching their limits. Here is one of many examples, airfields. The taxiways, aprons and parking areas have to be cooled with water because the pavement may reach its load limit. Costly and time-consuming repairs are the result. The heat waves are getting longer every year.
Wouldn't it be an improvement to use semi-rigid floor coverings with a temperature resistance of up to +90°C and very high load-bearing capacity in highly stressed areas? An alternative would be UHPC TopLayers that do not lose their peak load-bearing capacity even at very high temperatures.

 

 

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CNN Article - It´s so hot, roads are buckling, they are putting foil on a bridge and roof....

 The climate has changed and even if all countries of the world would reach their climate goals, it would still take decades positively estimated until the climate change would move again in another direction. So we and the next generation of us have to live with the changes like heat. Now the architects are asked not to build beautiful glass palaces but buildings that resist heat. Take a look at the traditional building constructions in Africa and the Arabic countries and learn quickly. Our learning about building materials started years ago. We have a strong base in southern Africa. We learn and develop HPC and UHPC based on local raw materials and we combined our HPC and UHPC systems with local construction materials.
Many of our HPC and UHPC binder systems are high temperature resistant and may be easy to work with under higher ambient temperatures in the future.

 

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