Futurecrete® is Hy-Tec’s range of lower carbon concrete designed and manufactured in accordance with the performance requirements of AS1379 and AS3600, with a minimum of 30% lower embodied carbon compared to conventional concrete with no cement substitution.
Futurecrete® can be used in a wide range of project applications delivering equivalent performance to conventional concrete in most applications. Watch how we’ve partnered with Eifers™ on the construction of Melbourne Airport’s new T4 Uber canopy.
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The Adbri technical team was engaged by Fulton Hogan to customise our 50MPa general purpose concrete mix to reduce its embodied carbon for the Tram Tracks Renewal project in Victoria. As the project owners, Yarra Trams considered a 25% cement substitution and other optimisation opportunities for both sustainability and performance benefits.
The Adbri team created a bespoke mix by replacing a portion of this cement with slag, a byproduct which can be used as an SCM. SCMs can lower embodied carbon without lowering the strength or performance of concrete mix.
By replacing up to 25% of the cement content with slag, Yarra Trams made the sustainable choice to Build Better with Futurecrete®. Their choice resulted in a reduction of up to 70,000 kg CO2 equivalent per year of supply, compared to conventional concrete, as evidenced in Adbri’s concrete EPDs.*
*Comparison between Victorian manufactured 50MPa 20mm 25% Slag concrete and the National Life Cycle Inventory Database (AusLCI) equivalent ready-mix concrete with no cement replacement.
Across both packages, Adbri Concrete was responsible for supplying 25,000 cubic meters of Futurecrete® lower carbon concrete for the construction of multiple elements on the base, including housing quarters, pavement, hangars, and hardstand parking areas.
Our expert technical team curated a variety of concrete mixes to suit the project’s different requirements, while effectively lowering embodied carbon.
The Futurecrete® mixes selected for the project utilised 30-40% slag as a supplementary cementitious material (SCM) to replace cement content to produce a lower carbon concrete, while maintaining various strength requirements, ranging from 32 to 50MPa for the different elements.
Adbri partnered with City of PAE Council to make their footpaths more sustainable, while simultaneously recycling materials and transforming them into new, low-carbon products.
These new sustainable footpaths feature Adbri’s Futurecrete® Ultra low carbon concrete. This concrete is made with EvoCemTM, Australia’s first Type GL cement resulting in even lower carbon concrete.
This specialty concrete mix was crafted using 50% recycled aggregates from a local material recovery facility in Dry Creek, supporting the local SA circular economy.
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:
Considered hot weather conditions to eliminate the risk of thermal cracking
Remained super workable, allowing the concrete to be placed with ease
Achieved pilings with diameters of up to 1200mm
Replaced cement content with slag, reducing the embodied carbon of the concrete
Hy-Tec can specifically design concrete solutions utilising a range of raw material combinations that are specially tailored to your project performance requirements.
