In the future more people will live one artificial islands made by UHPC concrete constructions

In the future, more and more people will be forced to live on the water in coastal and flat islands.

Most of the world's major sites can be found on the coasts of our continents. the space for enlarging the site is not infinite. The first city planners are working on designs for how cities can spread out on the water. In other parts of the world, coastal sites are so deep in relation to the ocean that if the water rises just a few centimetres, the sites are in danger. Some islands are so deep that they also have extreme problems with today's ocean levels.

The previous wooden constructions of the coastal and river delta inhabitants will no longer be sufficient.
Rising sea levels and flooding are the result of climate change.

New construction designs by architects and new construction material can help coastal residents. Likewise, the existing wooden constructions can be made more stable where possible.

WPE DK HPC and UHPC binder systems are able to use local raw materials as aggregates or reinforcement such as bamboo, coconut fibre, jute fibre, shell casing, desert sand, lawa, granite etc. Everything built from HPC and UHPC concrete with such aggregates is sustainable and can be easily reused.

WPE DK HPC and UHPC concrete is ideal as a construction material for repairs and new constructions. HPC and UHPC concrete can extremely increase the stability and service life of wooden structures both above and underwater and create a corrosion protection for steel construction. 

Artificial islands on stilts on the coast or floating
islands on the high seas can offer solutions of any size. The islands can consist entirely of UHPC concrete. UHPC concrete is absolutely seawater resistant and has enormous strength. Entire cities could emerge on such platforms. The first architectural drafts by large international architectural offices have been around for a long time. Disused oil production platforms could also be upgraded and serve as starting points for such large artificial platforms.

For more than 30 years, HPC and UHPC concrete has been used in the international offshore industry as a material for new constructions or repairs. A lifetime of several hundred years is assumed for WPE DK UHPC new
designs.

Artificial, near-natural reefs and bank protections with HPC and UHPC are also planned, whereby the bank protections adapt to nature in their design and are not ugly concrete blocks. HPC and UHPC materials are far superior to steel in many areas in the offshore industry. There are already the first plans for underwater structures made of WPE DK UHPC special qualities in the deep sea down to 3000 m /9800 ft. 

 

 

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UHPC Floating platforms

The future will take place more and more on the water of the oceans, whether on the coast or in the open sea. UHPC Ultra high Performance Concrete will play a crucial role in this. The two main construction materials in the offshore sector so far are steel and concrete. However, both have significant disadvantages compared to UHPC.
On the one hand, there is resistance to salt water. Steel is very difficult to protect against corrosion and even then the construction still has to be serviced regularly and very time-consuming and expensive. Floating structures should have a lifespan of at least 100+ years in the future.
With normal concrete structures the problems are similar, if not more serious. Once extremely corrosive seawater has penetrated the steel reinforcement unnoticed, the repair effort is enormous. In addition, for this very reason, the construction must be extremely thick-walled. An anti-corrosion coating makes the entire construction additionally expensive and here too the entire construction must be checked regularly in short periods of time.
Special UHPC concretes have extremely high strength values ​​compared to normal concretes, they are waterproof after a wall thickness of a few millimeters and are absolutely salt water resistant. Some of our UHPC binders are also extremely temperature-resistant (up to max. 1200°C) and they are very good wear-resistant (resistant to wear and tear caused by moving ice floes). Due to the high strength values, structural elements can be optimized or minimized in terms of size and weight.
UHPC concrete will be the much cheaper material for the required service life.

As developers and producers of high-quality UHPC binder materials, we want to focus on three future projects:

1st project
Floating work platforms for energy generation and storage.
All the major offshore wind farm operators worldwide are currently planning not only to generate energy with wind turbines, but also to use this energy to produce hydrogen on site in the wind farm. Solar systems on the platforms should contribute to additional energy generation. The platforms can be manufactured in several standard segments and connected to form a network at sea. These platforms can be made from very lightweight UHPC. This UHPC material can be self-floating.

2nd project
Floating living and working platforms, artificial islands for the coastal area and for the open sea. Platforms
for residential buildings, hotels, schools, hospitals, office buildings and production facilities.
Please see the corresponding article below.

WPE DK International

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