Yard slabs that carry trucks
Workshop and yard slabs take heavy wheel loads, so the pour is usually thick and wide. A 1,000 m² yard at 200 mm is 200 m³: 17 trucks of 12 m³. These pours go straight from the chute when the mixer can drive onto the sub-base, which is the fastest and simplest placement.
If the sub-base cannot take a loaded truck, or the yard is behind a building, a 43 m boom set up at the gate reaches most of it.
Before any of that, a thin layer of blinding over the compacted ground gives a clean, level base for the reinforcement. It is a small volume, often one or two trucks, and can go in the day before the main slab.
Pacing the trucks
On a big yard slab the finishing crew sets the pace. We agree a target rate with your foreman, then dispatch to hold it: for example, 40 m³ an hour means a truck every eighteen minutes or so. If the crew slows, call the plant and we stretch the spacing before the trucks stack up at your gate.
For summer day pours the retarder is set for the trip from Al Quoz and the hour. A night start avoids the hottest part of the day and the worst of the traffic, if your yard can work at night.
Access in a working industrial area
Streets in the industrial blocks are full of parked vehicles, recovery trucks and deliveries. Clear the gate and the approach before the first mixer arrives. If you share access with neighbouring yards, check with them and with the landlord. Give us one site contact who answers the phone.
Questions from Ras Al Khor and Nad Al Hamar sites
- Can mixers drive onto my sub-base?
- Only if it is compacted to carry a loaded truck. If not, book a pump to place from the gate.
- What mix for a workshop floor?
- Often a fibre-reinforced mix to the strength your engineer specifies. Send the specification and we match it.
- How many trucks for a 200 m³ yard?
- Seventeen trucks of 12 m³, the last one a part load. We pace them to your finishing crew.