Construction World June 2015

Lafarge South Africa offers fully-integrated support for major infrastructure projects, including ready-mixed concrete, cement, aggregates, fly ash and on-site mobile batching plants. Current projects range from the N2 freeway upgrade at Eteza to the Lower Tugela bulk water scheme.

The solution from Lafarge South Africa was to position a mobile concrete batching plant optimally on site to service the major concrete pours and take on the durability risk. This was conditional on being awarded the full supply package of building materials. The successful outcome was the supply of 10 000 m³ CVC concrete, on-specification and on-time. This involved the supply 3 500 t of Lafarge Powercrete Plus 42,5R cement, 7 000 t of aggregates, 1 000 t of fly ash, as well as 8 000 t of cementitious roadbinder, RoadCem.

“Our construction contractor customers are appreciating the bene- fits of having their building materials supplied and managed from a single reliable source,” comments Lafarge South Africa’s, Mike Fisher, infrastructure road & rail development manager. “By matching the extensive capabilities of Lafarge South Africa with the needs of the specific construction project and the individual construction company, we achieve consistent quality and better value all round for the stakeholders.”

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CONSTRUCTION WORLD JUNE 2015