blueCONCRETE Technology

ADVANTAGES
> decreasing costs up to 35% > increasing durability > increasing sustainability > increasing strength > increasing workability > reducing bleeding > on balance: cost-effective > available: worldwide > materials: your local raw-materials

SUSTAINABILITY
> decreasing cement ratio up to 30% > decreasing silica, fly ash > decreasing CO2 > decreasing transportation emissions

APPLICATIONS
The range of applications is enormous: > structures and superstructures > cladding > civil- and underground engineering > earth-moist concretes > pre-cast concretes > architecture, interior design, ...

The next generation of the 'green concrete'

blueCONCRETE Technology is more than just another green concrete. blueCONCRETE is the Next Generation of sustainable concretes, based on your local available raw-materials, optimized with our technology. ECOLOGICAL & ECONOMICAL SAVINGS are implicit. Due to the blueCONCRETE optimization technology, the cement ratio can be decreased up to 30% or to minimal ratios given by national codes. In the same way, silica, fly ash or other reactive fines can be optimized and reduced. National certifications like LEED or GREEN STAR accreditations can be achieved. Belong the reduction of emissions, the blueCONCRETE technology can decrease your costs up to 35%.

Technology

THE DIFFERENCE, compared with traditional optimization methods, lies in the by G.tecz new developed evolutionary algorithms to optimize the packing density of the source materials and calculation of the waterfilm thickness of each matrix particle. Concrete, based on your raw materials, with a low cement ratio, a better workability, improved mechanical properties and low CO2 emissions - thats blueCONCRETE.

Optimization Process
Essential is to know the constituent parts of the concrete that should be optimized with the blueCONCRETE Technology. Therefore G.tecz is measuring all the elements with special equipments in it's laboratory. E.g. all the nano-scaled fines will be measured with the lasergranolumeter to get a high-res sieve line. After the measurement, we will start the optimization with our algorithms and are combining,

shifting and crossing the sieve lines of all the components to achieve the optimal packing density and to calculate the minimal waterfilm thickness. Gigantic array and vector operations will be done by our server system. More than about 50 million unknowns will be solved. We are not using the traditional 'old-school' bubble search algorithmes; those will not leed to a really good optimization and they are to slow for this huge amount of data. Large arrays of the branches are usually not followed. Also, the specific chemical material properties of the nanoscaled elements are remained out of consideration.

How does it work?

That's a question we often hear. And by your leave - Thats a secret

Performance

EXAMPLES
Three examples will show you the bandwidth of the technology: Austria (Midsize Pre-Cast Company: 40m3 per day) C60 - 30% Cement reduction, renounce of silica > New concrete class: C90 Netherlands (Midsize Pre-Cast Company: 30m3/day) C45 - 22% Cement reduction, Silica Germany (Small Pre-Cast Company: 25 m3/day) C35 - 12% cement

PERFORMANCE
G.tecz realized blueCONCRETE for several companies worldwide. The aim of the optimization is next to the economical and ecological benefit always a little bit different: Increasing workability, increasing porosity, increasing the compressive strength of the young concrete for a faster de-molding. That's why G.tecz will find individual solutions and can develop your individual blueCONCRETE.

> EARLY STRENGTH

Reduction of cement does not automatically lead to a reduction of the early strength - Quite the contrary is possible. The early strength can be hold or even improved.

> COMPRESSIVE STRENGTH

The diagrams above and below are showing, that within the same water/cement ratio, the compressive strength of the concrete can be increased dramatically while reducing the cement up to 20%.

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Process & Production

SERVICE
A continuos service is part of the development. In case of one of the raw-materials changed, or the chemical reaction of one component changes, whether there are problems with workability or quality - G.tecz will immediately support you and finds a solution or re-optimizes the recipe. With our laboratory, G.tecz can also help you as an external quality manager to proof the physical and mechanical properties of your materials. As prevention, G.tecz can continuosly check the quality of your raw-materials and negotiate conditions with your suppliers.

PROCESS

The basic key for your economical and ecological success is the TECHNOLOGY TRANSFER of our Know-How to your company. How does this work? Only a few steps are necessary: - Specification of class & National Codes - Analysis of local raw-materials & recipe - Pre-Optimization of your blueCONCRETE - Estimation of savings - Optimization of your blueCONCRETE - Test series > G.tecz Labs - Evaluation of mech. and phys. properties - TECHNOLOGY-TRANSFER - Test series > Your facilities + Evaluation - Final Adaptation > Production

KNOW HOW
After the transfer of knowledge, the recipe is yours and you can produce as many cubic-meters of blueCONCRETE as you want.

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Economic Advantages
EXAMPLES

Three examples will show you the range of possible savings: Austria (Midsize Pre-Cast Company: 40m3 per day) C60 - Savings 35 Euro / m3 > New concrete class: C90 Netherlands (Midsize Pre-Cast Company: 30m3/day) C45 - Savings 15 Euro / m3 Germany (Small Pre-Cast Company: 25 m3/day) C35 - Savings 8,50 Euro / m3

SAVINGS
The potential of savings for regular concretes is huge. Usually concretes were designed once and then used since a longtime without adaption of the recipe. But over the time the quality of the cement changed, the quality of the silica changed, the supplier of the gravels is delivering another sand, ... and so on. So, the optimization of your concrete with the blueCONCRETE Technology will effect the usage of the whole potentials of your raw-materials. Result is the optimal usage of cement, other fines, gravels, water and plasticizers.

Also simplifying the recipe and weaving of useless additives with the blueCONCRETE Technology, production failures will be reduced and the production process stabalized.

The potential economic benefits are:

- Decreasing the prize of your concrete - Better usage of natural resources - Higher product quality - Less rejections - Better workability > Better production process

Business Model
The business model does have two phases - development, production & service. G.tecz charges a development fee to cover the initial development costs. Those will be pro-rata refunded with production licence fees. With the licence fees comes the already included G.tecz service. RETURN OF INVEST takes place within the first months after producing blueCONCRETE. >> Please contact us for an individual offer: contact@gtecz.com

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Ecologic Advantages
With the blueCONCRETE technology, 81 kg CO2 per m3 can be saved. This is only one example of CO2 savings G.tecz achieved for a pre-cast company in Austria. For this company, this means a reduction of 376 MJ primary energy. With a daily production of about 40 m3, the company decreased the CO2 emissions per year by about 710 tons and 3.3 Million MJ Energy