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Marine and coastal concrete needs protection against chloride reactivity
Repaired the spalling. Left the chlorides?
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Protecting Concrete in Water Treatment Plants
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Extending the Life of Critical Concrete Infrastructure
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Keeping Highways Moving
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Marine and coastal concrete needs protection against chloride reactivity

Repaired the spalling. Left the chlorides?

Why does repaired marine concrete fail again so soon?

For marine engineers and asset managers: why coastal patch repairs keep coming back, and what to do about concrete that still looks sound. The inspection...

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Oswestry water treatment works concrete UK

Protecting Concrete in Water Treatment Plants

Can Your Infrastructure Withstand Contaminated Water?

Responsible for a water treatment plant? You’ll know the importance of keeping water moving safely and reliably through your facility. But how often do you...

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Elevated concrete highway overpass bridge

Extending the Life of Critical Concrete Infrastructure

Protecting Highways and Bridges

The Demands on Highway Infrastructure. Across the UK, highways and bridges are expected to do more than ever. They carry increasing traffic volumes, support vital...

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Friarton Bridge MARKHAM remediation work highway concrete infrastructure

Keeping Highways Moving

Protecting Concrete Infrastructure for the Long Term

Concrete assets under pressure Highway infrastructure must perform under some of the most demanding conditions in the built environment. Bridges, retaining walls, tunnels, culverts, parapets...

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Highway concrete infrastructure Birmingham spaghetti junction UK

Proactively maintaining highway infrastructure?

Cracking. Chloride attack. Corrosion. Escalating maintenance budgets.

Significant Highway Maintenance Costs Considering highway and civil infrastructure, the cost of maintaining the structure is a significant factor. The same entity (local council or...

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Data centres carry high fire risk. Even the concrete must be considered.

Fire Risk: A Major Concern for Data Centres

A risk that demands respect

Data centre fires may be uncommon, but their potential impact is disproportionate. Data centres sit at the heart of modern business. They support everything from...

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Data Centres and Unseen Concrete Challenges

Concrete failures have a domino effect, triggering failure in other areas.

Demand for data centres is exploding. The construction of data centres is accelerating sharply, driven by the surging demand for cloud services, artificial intelligence workloads...

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Northern Hospital car park under construction

Concrete curing on Car Parks – a Project Manager’s challenges

Does it seem like any curing method comes with a set of problems?

How does curing on car parks challenge a project manager? Construction project managers come across varied issues when it comes to concrete construction on multi-story...

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Advanced concrete curing with AQURON 1000

Curing Concrete is Not Just for Today

Curing for both today and tomorrow

Wolter Reinold de Sitter, part-time Professor in the design of structures in concrete at the Eindhoven University of Technology, proposed a Law of Fives for...

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The Prince of Wales bridge that connects England to Wales. (Second Severn Crossing)

Highways, Bridges, and Caring for Concrete

Enhance durability and extend service life

It’s Costly to Maintain Concrete Infrastructure If you’re in charge of the care of civil road or bridge infrastructure (or the related repair budget) you’ll...

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What on earth is ‘DEF’?

A hidden threat for concrete precast elements

Don’t you love acronyms? No, us neither. However, they do have some uses, and ‘D.E.F.’ is easier to say (and spell) than Delayed Ettringite Formation....

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Crystalline

We. Don’t. Do. Crystalline.

Let’s end the confusion.

Dedicated reader – this short article touches on a technical point that differentiates us from the vast majority of our admixture competitors. To the uninitiated,...

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