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UHPC - What do we understand by this and what does your customer mean? Are you sure you do not compare oranges with bananas ???? Today's state Today, there are a variety of so called UHPC products available on the market. Besides the high number of so-called UHPC products, there are just as many companies that process or distribute these products. Looking at these companies, most of the companies refer to their workforce from four manufacturers around the world, the remaining firms use standard concrete and process them in a good quality. Every concrete quality is described very precisely in the technical literature. There are well defined general material tests. Every architect and structural engineer can work with these defined values. All this does not exist in a general form for UHPC products. An explanation attempt An  Ultra High Strength Concrete  was developed in 1981 with a compressive strength of more than 120 MPa. Since this newly developed binder has found
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We want to report on our experience with UHPC Ultra High Performance Concrete. Being more than 25 years of development, we produce and install UHPC concretes in a variety of countries and industries. The application areas for UHPC we want to report on this blog are: - Architecture - Furniture design - Facades design - Garden design - Coastal protection - Sea port construction - Airports - Road construction - Industrial flooring - Security Military - Security Civil - Material recycling - Use of desert sand as a building material - Bridge Reconstruction - Earthquake protection of existing buildings - Shipbuilding - Offshore - Wind turbines - Tunneling etc. In all these areas UHPC has been successfully used. We will try to report regularly on the use of UHPC products in one of these areas of application.