When you have worked in this field for many years – and I have personally worked with Ultra High performance Concrete (UHPC) since 1987 – you see a lot of claims to being world leaders in High Performance Concrete (HPC). It is a claim that we have made ourselves, but since we produce only Ultra … More World leaders in UHPC?

In the previous blog Bendt described the origin of Hi-Cons UHPFRC material platform called CRC, Compact Reinforced Composite, and the many reasons for staying with this old well-documented and well-proven material. He also mentioned the paradox of our claim to being front edge innovators while using this old material, originally a registered trademark on its … More CRC vs CRC i2® – one ancestor, many descendants…

Traditionally concrete has often been “defined” by it’s compressive strength – a 40 MPa concrete or a 90 MPa concrete are expected to have very different properties. This has changed with the advent of Ultra High Performance Concrete (UHPC) where other properties or attributes can be just as important – or more important – than … More CRC – basic properties