INDUSTRY BENEFITS
- Easy application of design in the installation.
- More durable solutions requiring less maintenance.
- The system allows a design that substantialy reduces the thickness of the necessary support layers.
- The permanent load transfer facilitates reduced size slabs achieving an important decrease in the maximum tension supported, thus, allowing the designer to reduce its thickness.
- The slab does not neccessarily have to rest partially or totally on the ground, as per loads, temperatures or seats affecting it; but each slab will always rest on the adjacent slabs.
- This ability to permanently rest on the other allows a different design of the concrete pavement.
- Benefits for construction companies:
- Possibility to get more works by having a better and more cost-efficient technology:
- Quick and easy installation.
- Cost reduction on roads can be up to 25% of the total construction cost.
- In railways can produce savings of up to 50% of the civil works of the track foundation.
- In the paving of Ports and Airports esplanades cost reduction is greater than 33%.
- Ready to use without additional assemblies.
- Reduces material costs (savings of 50% in the firm) and installation.
- Reduces implementation schedules.
- Easy supply and distribution.
- Important benefit for works concessionaire contracts:
- With savings of € 20 / m2 per 1 km of highway 10 m wide, the savings would be 200,000 euros.
- With this economic advantage, bidding becomes more manageable.
- Lower cost, therefore, less investment.
- More durable solution which requires lesser frequency of maintenance.
- Benefits for Public Administration Clients:
- Less investment in infrastructure and more infrastructure with the same investment. (For example, a Highway Administration to invest 1,000 million euros a year, could save 100 million euros a year. In other infrastructures benefit assessment compared to the total is more difficult).
- Lower operating and maintenance costs.
- Environmental savings in CO2 production, materials handling and quarrying.
- Higher quality of service, greater surface evenness of a road and durability of the works.
- Less impact and inconvenience for citizens by reducing execution schedules.