We increase the sustainability of UHPC

With our high-performance UHPC products, we started

using sustainable products years ago. We are also

increasingly focusing on sustainability when it comes

to units for our UHPC binders.

One example is corundum, which we use as an aggregate,

among other things. Corundum can be produced as

synthetic corundum with very high energy consumption

or can be mined as natural corundum in open-cast mining.

We have chosen natural corundum for more than 15 years.

Together with our partner in Africa, we pay attention to a

nature-friendly mining and an equally nature-friendly

restoration of the surface areas. The natural corundum

mined by our partner has proven to be an almost perfect

unit for our UHPC over many hundreds of applications

in the offshore industry, architecture, wear protection

and security industry.

Another problematic aggregate of quartz sand, we can

completely replace today with desert sand, including

from Africa. The technical values ​​of desert sand

concrete are far above the best standard concrete.

In our opinion, it is not necessary to destroy beaches

and rivers by sand mining. The cost of desert sand

mining is many times less than the predatory mining

of river sand or beach sand.

As far as the reinforcement systems or fiber systems

are concerned, nature offers us very sustainable

products that can be used in combination with

high-quality UHPC binder systems to create a perfect

sustainable product.

Our goal is always to produce UHPC binder systems

so flexibly that we can always use a high proportion

of local raw materials.

WPE DK International

Phone: 0049 176 601 73146
E-mail: info@wpe-dk.dk
Homepage: www.wpe-dk.com

 

UHPC® Architecture on the sea coast

The big cities on the coasts and rivers have

big problems for the future. A problem is the 
lack of natural space for the permanent 
expansion of cities. Building ever higher 
skyscrapers is not a solution in the long run. 
One solution is to expand the construction 
site by adding fillings in the coastal area, 
as we see in Dubai and Singapore, among 
others. Another solution to the problem is 
the very old traditional construction of pile 
dwellings and houseboats, as they have 
always done in Asia.

Modern architecture has been thinking 
about its designs for a long time with interesting 
designs and projects about future life in coastal 
and river areas. Here, the old living concepts 
are reinterpreted. New materials such as 
UHPC® concretes can easily incorporate 
existing local living concepts and constructions 
and implement them in permanent concepts. 
UHPC® offers absolute seawater resistance with 
extremely high strength. Light, thin but 
high-strength constructions can be combined 
with local traditional materials such as bamboo.

Floating residential and industrial concepts can 
also be realized with UHPC®, and not just above 
water. The first underwater concepts have 
already been implemented worldwide with new 
hotel concepts. Recent plans also include 
entire artificial islands on which hospitals, 
workshops, hotels, kindergartens, residential 
complexes including leisure facilities are built.
Some international architecture firms are 
interested in using UHPC® Ultra High 
Performance Concrete in their living concepts, 
because the advantages of this material are 
unique in their variety and quality.

UHPC® offshore constructions are already in 
use in areas with extreme environmental 
conditions. UHPC® is very wear-resistant, 
among other things, moving ice masses is 
not a real problem for a UHPC® construction. 
UHPC® materials have no pores, are therefore 
extremely corrosion-resistant and offer an 
extremely long repair-free service life.


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