Creating innovative improvements

It's not a graphics error. We have deliberately made the photo look this way. For there are many working with concrete who experience just this effect.

Noisy working process

When casting concrete the traditional way, it's normal to shake – or more  strictly ”vibrate” – the poured concrete to ensure complete filling of the mould. It is a physically demanding as well as particularly noisy type of work.

Research into concrete

But change is on the way, because we research continuously into new and better ways of working with concrete. We are heading Danish research into SCC together with the Danish Technological Institute and others.

SCC stands for Self Compacting Concrete and is a new type of concrete, developed in Japan in the 1980s, which fills out every corner of the mould without the need for vibration. So the work is less physically demanding, less noisy, and can be done much faster.

Benefits the working environment

Concrete is the most important building material in the world. In Denmark alone, 1.5 tons of concrete is produced per inhabitant every year. And SCC is already being used in many places today. But our research aims to make SCC even more widely used, and thus significantly benefit both the working environment and productivity.