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Air curing concrete
Air Curing Your Concrete?
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Multi-storey healthcare building with parking lot and cars, under a cloudy sky.
Healthcare Facilities Are Designed for Decades
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Oswestry water treatment works concrete infrastructure UK
Protecting Concrete in Water Treatment Plants
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Colloidal silica imagined
What is Colloidal Silica?
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Air curing concrete

Air Curing Your Concrete?

Wait, what?

It’s an insider joke … ‘air curing’ means leaving the concrete to cure itself without any intervention or enhancement. No extra water, no treatment added,...

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Multi-storey healthcare building with parking lot and cars, under a cloudy sky.

Healthcare Facilities Are Designed for Decades

Flooring Risk Often Starts Before the First Pour.

Hospitals, healthcare facilities and aged care centres are expected to serve their communities for decades. Yet many flooring failures, maintenance issues and durability challenges can...

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Oswestry water treatment works concrete infrastructure 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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Colloidal silica imagined

What is Colloidal Silica?

Why, and how, is it used in concrete?

Concrete protection – the context Concrete is often viewed as a solid, impermeable material. In reality, it contains a network of microscopic pores and capillaries...

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From pour to commissioning - data centre concrete and schedules

Data Centre Construction: Reducing Delays Starts at the Concrete Design Stage

The biggest delays in data centre projects often begin long before the delay itself becomes visible.

Data Centre Construction is Highly Time-sensitive Data centre projects are built around one critical objective: on-time commissioning. Every day lost can affect downstream trades, delay...

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Secant piles soil stabilisation

Making Unstable Ground Buildable

How Colloidal Silica is Changing Soil Stabilisation

Why should the ground need stabilisation? When ground conditions are poor, the risks can quickly add up. Loose sands, permeable soils, groundwater movement and liquefaction...

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MARKHAM admixtures have multiple benefits for ready-mix plants. Choose water-based over crystalline.

Water-Based vs Crystalline Admixtures

Looking Beyond Waterproofing

When selecting a concrete waterproofing admixture, it’s easy to focus on one question: Will it keep water out? Today’s project teams, however, are being asked...

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Data centre concrete needs protection against fire and dust risks

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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New mine mining infrastructure concrete construction quality curing

Durability Starts on Day One

Why curing quality during construction has an outsized impact on mining assets

When it comes to the durability of concrete structures in mining projects, a relatively small investment made early can deliver substantial savings over the life...

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Concrete placement - waiting for concrete to dry

7 Challenges When Working with High Slag Concrete Mixes

On site realities

As the construction industry seeks practical ways to reduce embodied carbon, high-slag concrete mixes are increasingly specified across Australasia. Slag (GGBS) has become a major...

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Pumping concrete over extended lengths warehouse internal floor

Pumping concrete over distance or height

Keeping the mix moving and the finish right

Concrete pumping is increasingly commonplace. Concrete pumping has become standard practice across Australia and New Zealand, particularly as sites become tighter, structures taller, and schedules...

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Precasters plant yard Bum Bum Creek bridge elements

4 challenges for concrete precasters

Running a Precast Yard Should Not Mean Fighting Your Concrete Every Day

Precasters’ pain points For precast plant managers, especially if you operate your own batching facilities, consistency is crucial. With tight production runs and unforgiving delivery...

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