Amvic ICF Basement Concreting

Concreting an Amvic basement using waterproof, steel fibre-reinforced self-compacting concrete, the first such time concrete of this type has been used in ICF in the UK

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@Arica, the collapsed slump or spread (UK terminology here) was 650-700mm due to the self-compacting admixtures, not because of high water content, i.e. it's not a watery mix, it's using anti-segregation flow enhancing admixtures. We don't often use SC concrete however, this was a special case due to the large footprint of the basement where the higher rate of flow was critical in getting the concrete around the perimeter in a timely manner.

[@aricameier4131]

The slump, in the video, of this concrete looks like about 8, watery looking, but with fiber-reinforced concrete is this normal and what was the actual slump?

[@agradinariu]

how high you can pour the concrete in these blocks at a time?

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Actually ICF helps keep the building cooler in summer :)

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On this project we used fibre reinforcement in the concrete

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We used fibre reinforcement in the concrete instead on this project

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About 3 metres is the maximum height of pour per day, so we pour a storey height at a time in most cases.

[@EvendimataE]

oh now the basement will not be cold in summer :(

[@a2zhandi]

looks to be a pretty loose mix

[@xKalphax]

i thought this was legos