UK's biggest-ever floor slab

Concrete, Dec 2007/Jan 2008

Twintec Industrial Flooring has completed the UK's biggest-ever steel-fibre-reinforced concrete (SFRC) floor slab project for Tesco in Livingston, Scotland. Taylor Woodrow Construction was appointed as main contractor for this multi-million pound investment by Tesco, with W A Fairhurst as project engineer.

The lack of local availability of large volumes of concrete, together with the need for guaranteed delivery rate and consistent quality of product, was a major issue that required a radical solution. Twintec chose to produce the concrete itself, with batching carried out by a partner company, Sitebatch Technologies, using a continuous mixing plant capable of outputs of up to 70m3/hour. The project was constructed by an experienced workforce, who laid almost 250,000m2 of concrete flooring using 50,000m3 of concrete incorporating 2000 tonnes of steel fibres, contributing to a total project value in excess of £7 million.