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New Applications for Foamed Concrete
New and novel uses for foamed concrete Mines, Tunnels and basements. vaults, cellars, pipes and sink holes. Decommissioning work, ground stabilisation, new builds, roads and decks. These are but some
Foamed concrete Slabs and screeds
Using Foam Concrete for light weight, thermally insulating Floors, slabs and Screeds Screeds are regularly produced indoors and outdoors. Whilst a typical screed might only be a few millimeters thick,
Foamed Concrete Equipment PT.1
The Equipment we use on a daily basis to manufacture Foamed Concrete. In-Line Foam Concrete Pumps Foamed concrete is produced by adding Foam to a fluid, “grout like” base material.
Planes, Trains and Automobiles
Creating and improving infrastructure, using foamed concrete to make light work of it. From strengthening weak bridges and filling embankments. Filling voids before excavation and even large networks of roads
Filling Tunnels, and James Henry Greathead
In front of the Iconic Royal Exchange, Propump prepare to pump specialist foamed concrete into a network of passageways in London’s Underground, during engineering hours. To the right of
THE NEW LONDON UNDERGROUND
Back in 1863 The Metropolitan Railway opens the world’s first underground railway, between Paddington and Farringdon Street. It was opened to the public on 10 January 1863 with gas-lit wooden
St Albans Sinkhole – Emergency Foamed Concrete and Ground Stabilisation
Sinkholes and Dean-holes tend to be a more common occurrence when the weather turns and there is a larger volume of rainfall. Caused by poor drainage, leaking pipes and ground
Foamed Concrete – Filling an Annulus and Headings
Foamed concrete has a great number of potential uses. The fluid nature of this Foamed cement / grout combination allows it to be pumped much easier and at considerably less
Two Sinkholes in Two Days
One sinkhole in Reading, another in Ashford. When rain or groundwater washes away permeable bed rock such as chalk, salt, gypsum and limestone, voids are created underground. It’s only a
PROPUMP RIDS KENT HOMEOWNERS OF THAT SINKING FEELING
When a three metre deep sinkhole opened up in a Kent back garden this year, it swallowed two sheds and disrupted sewers and water supplies. Propump Engineering and the company’s
