Hy-Tec and Fulton Hogan are building better to upgrade the Bruce Highway, a key piece of infrastructure that connects Queenslanders. The upgrade includes expanding the highway from four lanes to six, and the construction of three waterway overpasses. To deliver for this project, the team needed to consider the hot Queensland weather, and the strength requirements to support the overpasses and road itself.
To meet the project performance requirements, the specification called for a mix with a high portion of slag, a recycled supplementary cementitious material (SCM), which was used as a cement replacement in the concrete mix.
Our technical team created a custom Futurecrete mix for the project which:
