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These are problems the site agent just doesnвЂ™t want.вЂќДramix is more expensive than mesh per square metre вЂ“ mesh, after all, is very cheap to buy while a fair bit of Dramix has to go into the concrete.

вЂњMesh is major work and there are safety issues and methods statements, which are difficult to cost. вЂњItвЂ™s going to save a huge amount of time on site,вЂќ says Johnstone. The concrete pumped perfectly and wire cutters werenвЂ™t needed. ItвЂ™s going to save a huge amount of time on site He chose a house near the River Ouse, with a 150m2 ground floor built on flood basements that lifted it a metre above ground level.

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Recalling the nightmare stuff about early steel fibres - they balled up and clogged the pump, or protruded from the surface of the concrete and had to be snipped off one by one - Johnstone deliberately made the trial job a small one. Belgian company Bekaert, founded by the eponymous inventor of barbed wire, makes the Dramix steel fibres that give concrete all the advantages of steel mesh - strength, anti-cracking control and slab integrity in a fire - without the installation disadvantages of actually using any.Дerek Johnstone, MD of steel decking installer MSW, has used Dramix with Ward Multideck 60 profiled metal floordeck at a site at Buckden in Cambridgeshire. So why use it at all? Steel fibre-reinforced concrete has been around for years for ground floors and tunnels now you can pour it at any floor level you like. Even when itвЂ™s down on the decking, resting on its little plastic stools, ready for burial by concrete, mesh is still a hazard for construction workers. Then youвЂ™ve got to crane it - and thatвЂ™s a thousand pounds a day - into position, with all the safety problems and site disruption that involves. The 40ft trailers it arrives on are a curse on the tight, city centre sites where multi-storey concrete-floored office blocks go up. Just getting the mesh to the floor where itвЂ™s needed is a major operation. And the unwieldy 8ft by 4ft sheets buckle and twist, making them difficult to handle and place, even with a man at each corner. You spend a day meshing a 1000m2 floor before you can cast your concrete.

Building Boardroom Digital Construction AcademyДRAMIX STEEL FIBRE takes the mesh out of concreteДЇor the site agent stuck in a cabin trying to get the project built, steel mesh is nothing but a pain.

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It offers a single reference source on Ward systems. Ward Toolkit includes a wealth of technical literature, including the company's Insulated Panels handbook, to provide a wide selection of construction details that can be accessed in AutoCAD format. It then provides fully calculated wind pressure data for the building from each of 12 wind directions and applies it to the sides, corners and roofs of the structure.

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These features enable users to take full account of minimum distances to the sea and topography surrounding a proposed construction site. It features integrated information derived from the Ordnance Survey, the latest BREVe topographical information and BRECp external coefficients.

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Toolkit assists users in meeting the requirements of the latest wind code BS6399-2 1997 part 2.

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The CD is free to engineers and users of Ward structural products, and includes structural design programmes for the company's Multibeam Purlin, Rail Systems, Multichannel and Multideck Flooring products. Ward Building Components has launched a CD known as Toolkit, which incorporates four interactive structural design programmes.