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.......