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Standard Ready Mix Concrete
Concrete is produced in four basic forms, each with its own set of distinctive advantages:
- Ready-mix concrete: by far the most common form, accounts for nearly 75% of all concrete produced. Ready mix concrete delivery begins with batching at local plants and delivery in the familiar trucks with revolving drums.
- Pre-cast concrete: used in products that are shaped in a factory where quality control is tightly monitored. Pre-cast products range from huge bridge girders and complex structural components to standardized panels for cladding and smaller concrete bricks and paving stones.
- Concrete masonry: although best known for the venerable 8”x8”x16” building block, today’s masonry units can be molded into a myriad of shapes, configurations, colors, and textures to satisfy a seemingly infinite spectrum of building applications and architectural designs.
- Cement-based materials: these products defy the label "concrete," yet share many of its desirable qualities. The more conventional include mortar, grout, and terrazzo. Soil-cement and roller-compacted concrete: "cousins" of concrete - are used for pavements and dams. Other products include flowable fill and cement treated bases. A new generation of advanced products incorporates fibers and special aggregates to create roofing tiles, shake shingles, lap siding, and countertops. Using cement to treat and stabilize waste is an emerging market.
Architectural/Decorative Concrete
- Exposed Aggregate Concrete: Concrete mixture, with specialty rock, designed to have the surface paste removed while fresh to reveal the decorative aggregate beneath.
- Coloured Concrete: Gray slabs are not your only choice when it comes to concrete work. CEMEX concrete can be produced in a wide range of colors, to make any project a work of art. Our high-quality coloring techniques produce a long lasting, uniform product. Thanks to better concrete coloring, your patios, walkways and driveways can look like works of art.
- Stamp Mix: A concrete mixture designed to be stamped for decorative applications. Stamped concrete is concrete that is patterned to resemble brick, slate, flagstone, stone, tile and even wood.
- Specialty Aggregate Mixtures: Concrete mixture that contains coarse and/or fine aggregate different from normal concrete.
Accelerated Set Concrete
- Rapid setting concrete mixture used when early strength is required.
- Cold weather placements, tight scheduling requirement projects, reduced finishing projects as needed, pavement repairs.
- Accelerated set concrete stiffens and strengthens faster than normal concrete. This reduces finishing time, allows for earlier removal and/or allows traffic on to pavements sooner.
Fibre Reinforced Concrete
- Concrete mixture that includes fibrous materials as an alternative to welded wire fabric for secondary reinforcement.
- Commonly used in floor slabs, elevated metal pan decks and flat work. Commonly used in floor slabs, elevated metal pan decks and flat work. Also used in insulated concrete forms (ICFs) for homebuilding
- Non-corrosive, improved impact, shatter and abrasive resistant; multidimensional reinforcement; always positioned in compliance with codes.
- Reinforcement throughout the entire concrete section: By adding millions of fibers to the concrete mix, the concrete achieves three-dimensional reinforcement. Increased construction speed: By adding reinforcement to the concrete mix, construction is faster and labor costs are reduced.
- No special equipment required: By adding fiber reinforcement in commonly used concrete mix designs and conventional concrete pumps, no additional equipment expenses are needed.
- Fiber reinforcement also inhibits plastic shrinkage crack formation, reduces plastic settlement cracking, increases green strength, and improves the cohesion of the mix, all of which give you durable, low maintenance concrete.
- Controlled low-strength material (CLSM) is a self-compacted, cementitious material used primarily as a backfill in place of compacted fill.
- Backfill, structural fill and other uses such as filling-abandoned underground storage tanks, tunnel shafts and sewers.
- Controlled strength, self-leveling, non-corrosive, quick set capability, ease of re-excavation, lower in-place cost in certain applications, worker safety, reduced maintenance, utility identification, reduced project scheduling, design flexibility.
Roller-Compacted Concrete
- Pavement applications, local streets and roads, residential streets, highway shoulders, port facilities, intermodal yards, parking lots, dam construction.
- Lower installation and maintenance costs than asphalt, fastest speed of construction due to paving in lifts up to 9 inches thick, open to light traffic within hours, open to heavy traffic within 1 to 2 days, durable, supports sustainable development.
Self consolidating Concrete
- Self consolidating concrete, also known as self compacting concrete - a highly flowable, non-segregating concrete that can spread in place, fill formwork and encapsulate the reinforcement without any mechanical consolidation.
- Commonly used in structural and architectural concrete elements where reinforcing steel is tight and/or surface smoothness is important.
- Faster placement, improved finish, ease of filling restricted sections, improved consolidation, improved pump ability, improved uniformity, reduced labor costs, quicker concrete discharge, elimination of vibrators, increased job site safety.
Pervious Concrete
- Pervious concrete pavements are commonly used for commercial parking areas and other light duty applications. Because of its infiltration capacity, it may allow for reductions in pond size. Additionally, many agencies do not count the full pervious pavement as impervious surface for zoning.
- Common applications for the pervious concrete include: Pharmacies, offices, restaurants, banks, subdivisions, retail shops.
- Due to durability concerns, this technology should not be used in: airport runways, heavy truck facilities, or uncovered athletic facilities.
- Placement and finishing techniques for pervious concrete are different from plain concrete. Pervious concrete is actually cast from a no-fines concrete mixture, thus it will not flow. It must be placed with specialty equipment to encourage consolidation without collapsing the void structure. Further, the water content of the fresh concrete must be carefully controlled. Pervious concrete must cure for seven days before opening to traffic.
Insulating Concrete Form Systems
- Insulating Concrete Form Systems (ICFs) are forms for poured concrete walls, that stay in place as a permanent part of the wall assembly. The insulated concrete forms made of foam insulation, are either pre-formed interlocking blocks or separate panels connected with plastic or metal ties. The left-in-place insulated concrete forms not only provide a continuous insulation and sound barrier, but also a backing for drywall on the inside, and stucco, lap siding or brick on the outside.
- Insulated concrete form homes can be designed in any style and will accept any traditional exterior finish, such as siding, stucco, or brick. In addition to the many functional aspects of insulated concrete form homes, consider the sheer beauty that can be added. Insulated concrete form systems accommodate any of today's most popular design features. Cathedral ceilings, tall walls and large openings are just some of the options available. Because concrete can take any shape or form, it can create an unlimited variety of curves and angles.
- The massive concrete walls of insulated concrete form homes provide a remarkably solid feel and safety for your family. Concrete has a proven record of withstanding the ravages of hurricane, tornadoes and fires. In sound transmission tests, insulated concrete form walls allowed less than one-third as much sound to pass through, as compared to wood-frame walls with fiberglass insulation. With double-glazed windows and increased roof insulation, you will rarely hear street or airport traffic, all of which disappears behind your insulated concrete form curtain of tranquility.
- Energy savings and comfort are built into every insulated concrete form system. The thickness, or thermal mass, of the wall configuration buffers the interior of the home from the extremes of outdoor temperature variances. Foam insulation provides a high R-value, so with the combination of the foam and concrete, the wall allows minimal air infiltration. Over the long run, benefits of energy efficiency, disaster resistance and durability reduce the cost of owning a home.
Specialty Concrete
- Abrasion resistant, alternate binders, corrosion inhibited, delayed set, heavyweight, lightweight, mass concrete, micro-silica, shrinkage reduced, shotcrete mixtures, high slump, underwater concrete, Whitetopping/Ultra-thin whitetopping.
Concrete Sealers
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Decision Making
A large area of our design is made of concrete. We thought that using a ready-mix concrete would be the most appropriate method to use, as this is the most common form used for public and transitional spaces. We wouldn't need a concrete much stronger than this because there will not be great amounts of weight applied to it - only the weight of people, and built-in furniture.
Concrete Sealers
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Decision Making
A large area of our design is made of concrete. We thought that using a ready-mix concrete would be the most appropriate method to use, as this is the most common form used for public and transitional spaces. We wouldn't need a concrete much stronger than this because there will not be great amounts of weight applied to it - only the weight of people, and built-in furniture.
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