Introducing Concrete Canvas.......
On demand concrete performance, wherever and whenever you need it …….
……..JUST ADD WATER!!
An Innovation in Concrete
and Geosynthetics
Awards for Innovation
World of Concrete Most Innovative Product 2011
Brit Insurance Design Awards 2011
BUDMA Gold Medal 2011
Material ConneXion - MEDIUM Material of the
Year 2009
D&AD Global Product Design Award 2007
Saatchi & Saatchi 2005 World Changing Ideas
I2P Idea to Product 2005
Deutsche Bank Pyramid Award 2005
Oxford Venturefest Business plan Competition
2005
New Business Challenge 2005
Ideas Challenge 2005
Matthews Wrightson Award 2005
Helen Hamlyn Award for Creativity 2005
European Business Plan, Innovation Award 2005
BSI Sustainable Design Award 2004
BCA Concrete Innovation Award 2004
Engineered
reinforced fibre
matrix
Impregnated with
quick-setting cement
mix
PVC backing ensures
waterproofing and
hydration
Formable whilst wet
WHAT IS IT ?
Weight, Dimensions, Fire
Key strength and
durability properties
Resistance to Water
Rapid – simply unroll and ……
“JUST ADD WATER”
Simple – it cannot be poorly mixed nor
over-hydrated. Sets under water!
Versatile – one material, many uses
Waterproof – up to 3m of static head
Fireproof – Class „O‟ fire rating
Durable and Robust – Engineered, fibre
reinforced cementicious composite
Environmentally friendly Concrete
choice – less carbon, non OPC, less
washout
KEY BENEFITS
Afghanistan Sandbag Reinforcement
The first application for Concrete Cloth
Original use.
Ditch lining
Slope stabilisation
Gabion protection
Culvert repair
Tank bund
Pipe protection
Erosion/scour protection
Trench stabilisation/blinding
Mining Vent/Blast Walls.
APPLICATIONS
GROUND SURFACING
Underwater Installation Qatar
Sink pipe and protect
2000sqm CC13
South Africa - Joint Protection
PIPE PROTECTION
POP
OUTS
HONEYCOMBING CRAZING
FLAKING DUSTING
EFFECTIVE QUALITY
CONTROL
Quality control of the
manufacturing process is
not compromised by the
placement process
Avoidance of typical
imperfections
KEY ENGINEERING
CHARACTERISTICS
9:34am
9:06am
10:06am
12:02pm
Start: 0m
16m
32m
Finish: 140m
Method
1. Prepare ground (if required)
2. Un roll and lay the Concrete Cloth
3. Fix down (pegs, anchor trench
or both)
4. Join adjacent layers
5. Hydrate
6. Set
Chipping Sodbury – Network Rail
1. Original ditch was not lined
2. Flooding caused line closure
3. 140 Metre ditch laid in 3 hours
4. CC8 Used
DITCH LINING
Church Village Bypass– Costain
• 30 Metre ditch laid in 45 minutes
• CC8 Used
• EA approved
• Integrated with block stone outfall
• Edges fixed with by using an anchor
trench not pegs.
“The Church Village Bypass scheme presented our team
with a unique challenge. The location and nature of the
works required the sensitive use of appropriate
construction materials in order to minimise the impact on
the local environment. Concrete Cloth provided a means
of rapidly installing a low carbon concrete ditch whilst
maintaining the natural aesthetic of the overall scheme.”
Daniel Powrie CEng MICE, Project Manager
Costain Group
M3 Interceptor Drain Balfour Beatty
M4 Interceptor Drain
Enterprise Mouchel
Church Village Bypass
Costain
ROADSIDE DITCHING
Whitby – N Yorkshire
Prevent destabilizes bank
against high speed rail line.
Cholsey - Oxfordshire
Golbourne - Lancs
DITCHING & SLOPE PROTECTION
RAIL NETWORK
Slope Protection Spanish Rail
Drainage Panama
Damaged Channel
Finished ditch (laid in 3 parts in length direction)
Laid by Hand
Refurbished section
Royal Swazi Sugar – 1250sqm rehab. Installed in 2.5 days
( Sugar plant could not be shut down for more than 3 days!)
DITCHING / IRRIGATION CHANNELS
South Africa - Malkern
Bedwas Colliery, Caerphilly
Ebbw Vale
Scour Prevention
2ft wide but 6ft deep!!
Access difficult
Speed of installation
150 linear meters/ hr.
Steep, difficult to access locations!
Ystrad Mynach Caerphilly
No slabs, no liquid concrete
Saved 2 weeks of slabbing
No haulage route needed to be built!
Safer site and less vehicle movements
Note: Land drains integrated into ditch to
prevent undermining of subground
Mechanical Fixings
Staples
Hilti Nails
Screws
Pegs
Hog Ring
Trench and burying
Apply Mechanical Fixings Before Hydration
Cutting and Joining Methods
Joining Methods
Simple overlap
– min 100mm
and compressed
Concrete Bond
Thermal welding
Adhesive sealant
Mortar/grout
10 Benefits of Concrete Cloth
Cost effective: Installed price is 50% cheaper
than traditional concrete and slabs
Reduces maintenance costs: Reduces weed
growth and erosion
Easily laid on steep slopes
Easily laid in the rain
Ideal for limited access sites
Sets underwater so it can be used in an
emergency
Environmentally friendly. Only 3% washout
and lower alkalinity than traditional concrete
Less shipments/truck, less plant and
materials means a lower carbon footprint
than traditional methods.
Natural: The cloth can be shaped and
stretched to follow the natural water course
No need to build haulage route infrastructure
for concrete trucks
Ditch/Canal Lining
Senghenydd, Caerphilly
Bad, wet ground. Saved time labour and money
compared to poured concrete base and slabbing
SLOPE PROTECTION
Eungella Forest, Australia
A client of Burdens Australia was commissioned for the first stage of project works lining a
drainage system in Eungella Forest.
The project included 50m of drainage channels on both sides of a road with one side
terminating into a spill way. The opposite side ran alongside a batter.
The batter was approximately 20m either side of a culvert with a 4m fall.
Cutting CC to length onsite
CC layers pegged into position prior to
hydration
SLOPE PROTECTION
Eungella Forest, Australia
The laying of Concrete Canvas commenced at 7am and the last pin was driven in at 5.20pm
using a team of 8.
CC lined batter
CC lined drainage channel Drainage channel terminating into
spillway
Alcobendas Station, Madrid,
Spain.
In December 2010, ADIF, the Spanish authority responsible for railway infrastructure
management, specified Concrete Canvas (CC) to be used as slope protection for a railway
station in Madrid.
CC was chosen to address years of erosion and instability issues affecting the entrance of
Alcobendas tunnel station. Erosion of the steep railway slope trenches had caused silting at
the drainage pumps in the tunnel entrance.
Shotcrete has long been the traditional solution, but presents several problems with
installation and durability. CC8 was specified and 2500sqm of material was delivered on site
in bulk rolls.
CC applied with spreader beam Hydration of the CC
Alcobendas Station, Madrid,
Spain.
The project’s first phase of 800sqm was completed in under 3 days and was 70% quicker to
install than if shotcrete had been Used.
Terminating CC into a drainage channel View of 40% completed project
Stabilize the bank by sealing it.
50% less expensive than shotcrete
70% faster than shotcrete
300 m2 cloth laid per day
Spanish Rail rep preferred finish to shotcrete
Alcobendas Station,
Madrid, Spain
In December 2010, ADIF, the Spanish authority responsible for railway infrastructure management, specified Concrete Cloth (CC) to be used as
slope stabilisation to protect a railway station in Madrid. CC was chosen to address years of erosion and instability issues affecting the entrance of
Alcobendas tunnel station. Erosion of the steep railway slope trenches had caused silting at the drainage pumps in the tunnel entrance. Shotcrete
has long been the traditional solution, but presents several problems with installation and durability.
CC8 was specified and 2500sqm of material was delivered on site in bulk rolls. The project’s first phase of 800sqm was completed in under 3 days
and was 70% quicker to install than if shotcrete had been used.
View of 40% completed project
Terminating CC into
a drainage channel
Hydration of the CC
CC applied with spreader beam
Stabilize the bank by sealing it.
50% less expensive than shotcrete
70% faster than shotcrete
300 m2 cloth laid per day
Spanish Rail rep preferred finish to shotcrete
Erosion Control – Spanish Rail
Coastal Protection
Sealed slope
from water penetration
scouring and sliding
Shotcrete a lot more
expensive solution
Gabion Repair/Reinforcement
Bear Scotland M80 Culvert Repair
Tunnel liner had corroded leading to scouring.
Large holes were filled in and then Concrete Cloth
laid in as a new base.
Clients & Endorsements
http://www.rother.gov.uk
http://www.environment-
agency.gov.uk
http://www.networkrail.co.uk
http://www.costain.com
http://www.bamnuttall.co.uk
http://www.breheny.co.uk http://www.dyerandbutler.co.uk
Graham Spence, Senior Site Agent - Dyer and Butler “ Using Concrete Cloth at this site had great benefits over conventional methods, with speed of
delivery of works and negligible disruption to the local public and road users”
AWARDS
INNOVATION WITH CONCRETE WINS COMPANY TOP UK BUSINESS AWARD
A South Wales material technology firm has beaten off competition from some of Britain‟s best
high tech businesses to win a leading UK industry award.
Concrete Canvas Ltd (CCL), based in Pontypridd, has collected the coveted British Chambers of
Commerce Award for Innovation through Technology, sponsored by Dell. Judges were so
impressed with the rapidly-growing company‟s unique approach that they also named Concrete
Canvas as a runner up for the award for Outstanding Business Achievement, which earned the
company a £15,000 cash prize.
John Longworth, Director General of the British Chambers of Commerce, said: “Concrete Canvas
is exactly the kind of company we need in this country. It is leading the way by creating a highly
innovative product which has major implications for military and civil engineering markets across
the globe. This growing business has not only built a unique selling point for itself, it‟s also solved
a problem for its clients by creating an energy efficient, environmentally friendly and cost effective
product.”
Concrete Canvas.......