Book for the traffic you will meet
This is a long trip across the city on a busy corridor. In our dispatch it counts as a far pour: the retarder is set for the travel time and the hour, and the first truck leaves early enough to arrive when your crew is ready, not before. Send the start time and the slump at discharge your engineer wants.
Industrial floors
Warehouse and workshop floors are large, flat pours placed straight from the chute or with a short boom, then finished by power trowel. The truck count is the main planning number: a 600 m² floor at 200 mm thick is 120 m³, or ten trucks. A finishing crew needs the concrete to arrive at a steady pace; long gaps leave cold joints and uneven setting across the floor.
Fibre-reinforced mixes are a common choice for these floors to control early cracking.
If the floor is poured in bays, give us the bay sequence and volumes. We release trucks bay by bay, so the crew finishes one area before the next load is on its way, and we do not leave a truck turning at the gate while the screeders reset.
Accommodation and residential blocks
Staff accommodation and apartment blocks here are mid-rise, with clear road frontage on most plots. A 43 m boom covers a G+5 slab from the street. When the pump has to sit in a yard further from the building, book the 57 m boom.
Industrial yards often have their own gate rules and hours. Check with the landlord or the facility management, and give us a contact for the gate.
Questions from Al Qusais and Muhaisnah sites
- How many trucks for a warehouse floor?
- Divide the volume by 12. A 120 m³ floor is ten trucks, sent at a pace the finishing crew can keep up with.
- Is the long distance a problem for slump?
- No, as long as we know the pour hour. The retarder dose is set for the trip.
- Can you pour at night in Al Qusais?
- The plant runs 24/7. Whether your site can work at night depends on the landlord, the community and local rules, so check with them first.