Structural Products Composite Slab Flooring System Using DRAMIX Steel Fibre Concrete - Projects Book Structural Products

Kingspan and Bekaert Composite Slab Utilised for many years throughout Europe, Dramix fibres are steel wire filaments that are added to the concrete mix to provide a pre-reinforced concrete suitable for pumping straight onto the Kingspan Multideck at any height. Construction Advantages No Mesh Construction • • • • • • • Following extensive test work and analysis by The Steel Construction Institute, Dramix® Steel Fibres it is now available for multi-storey applications. Dramix steel fibres with Multideck profiles have been proven by testing to achieve full fire performance for 1 - 1.5 hours. Pre-Reinforced...

Proven Quality The fibres provide full depth reinforcement and excellent crack control. What’s more the design is endorsed by the Steel Construction Institute (SCI) making it as good as, if not stronger, than conventional built-up mesh systems. The fibres spread evenly during the mixing process, so pumping to heights is no problem using normal pumping equipment and this has been demonstrated on various projects throughout Europe such as the Colmore Plaza on all of its 14 floors, 10 storey Teesside House in Middlesbrough, Thanet Retail Park, Spurriergate in York mixed development and the prestigious...

Hi-Rise ‘ tallest building in the UK to specify Dramix® Steel Fibre Concrete ’ Colmore Plaza Birmingham Project Name Colmore Plaza Location Birmingham Structural Consultant Brookbanks Consulting Main Contractor Bowmer & Kirkland Ltd. Sub Contractors MSW, Twintec Usage Offices 4 The £155million Colmore Plaza project in Birmingham is the tallest building in the UK to specify Dramix® Steel Fibre Concrete for each of its 14 floors. The Plaza’s city centre location necessitated carefully planned night pours of the innovative flooring solution. Space at the site is so restricted that a traditional...

into each floor of the office building according to a strictly controlled night-time schedule to cause minimum disruption to the surrounding area. When used in conjunction with Kingspan Multideck MD80-V2, Dramix® Steel Fibre Concrete provides a proven 1 hour and 1.5 hour fire rating. Not only does mesh become redundant, but the shear resistance of Dramix® concrete exceeds that of its mesh reinforced equivalent. In addition, the unique design of Kingspan Multideck reduces the volume of concrete required, bringing cost as well as time savings to a project. Dramix® is now being specified in a number...

Hi-Rise Teesside House Middlesbrough Project Name Teesside House Location Middlesbrough Structural Consultant Billinghurst George & Partners Main Contractor The Mandale Group Sub Contractors Metaldeck Ltd., Sidlow Brothers Ltd. Usage Student Accommodation / Retail Carrmills, Leeds 6 The £3,160,000 project Teesside House in Middlesbrough is a 10 Storey scheme to provide a 388 bed student accommodation block in Middlesbrough town centre, with retail units and a restaurant on the ground floor. Due to the very limited access on the side roads on this town centre development the option to use fibres...

Leisure Kirkby Leisure Centre Liverpool The £9,000,000 scheme is a new leisure centre comprising of a 4 court sports hall, 6-lane 25m pool, 12m by 10m learner pool, health and fitness / dance facility, shapers plus fitness room, multi purpose hall, wet and dry changing rooms, boxing club facility, aerobics studio, admin office, reception area, 6-lane athletics track, 2 artificial turf soccer pitches, landscaping and parking. Time savings and Health and Safety issues of using mesh were taken into account by the main contractor and the client in their decision to use a steel fibre reinforced concrete...

Mixed Use Express Networks Manchester Project Name Express Networks Location Manchester Structural Consultant Marston and Grundy Main Contractor Artisan Ltd. Sub Contractors Metaldeck Ltd., Sidlow Brothers Ltd. Usage Offices / Residential The £8,000,000 scheme comprises office and shop units on the ground floor and first floor with 56 apartments over 6 storeys above. 28 parking spaces are also included. due to its very ‘ restricted corner site, steel fibre concrete was the answer ’ This was the first time the Engineer had seriously considered steel fibre concrete on decks, but due to its very...

Mixed Use Spurriergate York Kingspan and Dramix provided an innovative solution to the parking difficulties and constricted conditions in York City centre. The Spurriergate project comprised retail space on the ground floor and 13 two-bedroom apartments over a further three floors. The area was sited in the busiest shopping location in what is, ostensibly, a medieval city layout. Project Name Spurriergate Location York Structural Consultant Halcrow Group Ltd Main Contractor Quarmby Due to the confined nature of the site the engineers and main contractor needed to minimise site traffic and crane...

Education University of Nottingham Nottingham This £11,000,000 scheme comprised of the construction of phase 2 of the Centre for Bio Molecular Sciences research buildings and general academic buildings. Project Name University of Nottingham Location Nottingham Structural Consultant Ward & Cole Partnership Main Contractor Thomas Fish & Sons Ltd Sub Contractors MSW, Northern Flooring Usage University This was the first time that the engineer The Ward Cole Partnership had considered the use of Steel Fibre Concrete on Steel Decks, tight proximity of the new building to existing buildings created...

Education Bishop Auckland College County Durham The £9,500,000 scheme comprised of the comprehensive re-development of the college’s main campus, including the demolition of approximately 8,380 sqm of buildings and the construction of 7,000 sqm of classrooms. Metaldeck made the suggestion of using Steel Fibre Concrete on the decks of this project, and Cundall Johnston made an investigation into the viability and decided that there were definite advantages to the use of fibres over mesh. Tarmac bought and dosed the fibres at their local batching plant for Wyn Construction to pump and place the...