Our early strength concrete is designed with an innovative quick-drying formula to accelerate your project timelines. The fast-setting properties of our FastTrack concrete product range enable rapid formwork removal, significantly enhancing productivity.
Available from all our static and mobile production plants, this ready-mixed concrete is the perfect solution for fast-paced construction projects, ensuring reliability in demanding environments with tight deadlines.
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The early strength concrete mixes we manufacture can support a wide range of applications, including:
FastTrack, the rapid strength-gain, quick setting concrete by Heidelberg Materials, is ideal when a quick turnaround is needed. With fast setting times, our early strength concrete boosts project efficiency, making it well-suited to projects like including:
The main draw of early strength concrete is the speed at which it sets. In addition, the concrete:
NOTE: Please note, all benefits are subject to good concreting practice (placement, finishing and curing).
Our early strength concrete range can be specifically designed for various levels of compressive strength via our bespoke concrete service.
By engineering the mix to meet your needs, we enable your fast drying concrete to take vast amounts of different loads. For instance, from low compressive strength (when strength properties are not integral), to very high compressive strength (when a high level of strength is imperative to the project's success).
All bespoke early strength concrete from Heidelberg Materials UK:
The use of our early strength concrete admixtures has played a key role in the construction of the 65-metre-high central concrete lift shaft at One St Peter’s Square, a 270,000-square-foot BREEAM Excellent (sustainability standard) building.
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Our partners at Supamix are ideal for small loads of ready-mixed concrete (1m³ to 4m³).
SmartRock wireless concrete sensors monitor temperature and strength gain every 15 minutes for up to 60 days, providing real-time data that can help you save time, money and CO2 with no need for test cubes and no waiting for results.
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Heidelberg Materials is a member of the Quality Scheme for Ready-Mixed Concrete (QSRMC) and all our early strength concrete products carry this certification.
“Heidelberg Materials is an excellent supply partner offering high quality engineering solutions and high levels of customer and technical service.”
Jonny Fearon, Senior Project Manager at Story Contracting
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Early strength concrete is specially formulated to set faster than traditional concrete, speeding up construction schedules. It provides the same durability and performance as standard concrete but reaches critical strength much sooner. It’s also known as ‘quick setting concrete’ or ‘fast drying concrete’.
The exact time fast drying concrete takes to cure depends on the specific mix and environmental conditions. Typically, early strength concrete can reach sufficient load-bearing strength within 24 hours or less, letting your team move to the next phase of construction faster.
High early strength concrete is designed to enhance the early age strength of concrete. It’s best suited to applications where timeframes are tight and rapid turnarounds are necessary, from carriageway replacements to rail renovations.
If you need concrete to dry quickly, our range of fast setting concrete could be ideal. Water in concrete is used by the cement to gain strength. In some cases, conventional concrete can take months to fully dry. Our FastTrack range has been developed to optimise the relationship between drying and strength gain.
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