The Big Pour

Innocon Inc, A Toronto Readymix company poured a record breaking 4300 m3 of AGILIA self compacting concrete on 29th November 2008. A total of 120 trucks completed the pour in 14 hrs achieving a north american record for SCC

Category:

Science & Technology

Tags:

• SCC
• Innocon
• Concrete
• Agilia
• Four seasons
• Menkes

[macontario1]

offset, Agilia doesnt use a traditional slump, it uses flow. Typically the flow whihc is measured on a flat board is between 680-750mm. Hope that answers your question. In answer to an earlier question, strength is typicallly much higher than standard concrete despite its high flow.

[SomthingnotRight]

that was awsome what are they building and those mixers are frickin sick.

[macontario1]

Hi Somethingnotright, the building is the new 'Four Seasons' Hotel on Bay Street in Toronto. Thanks for your interest

[grayfox665]

my father helped with this hes in truck 012

[localcrew]

I wonder if they considered just building a temporary mixing plant right there on site. Seems as if that might be one way to do it. Maybe not the best way though. Thanks for posting this very interesting video.

[djmighton]

@macontario1 you guys hiring lmao live is sweet when pumpin crete

[sr71ablackbird]

@SomthingnotRight those mixers may be sick, but nonetheless, that was the way that they were made back in the 1960s and 70s. So imagine living during that time, to me, they days, the all look like they're driving backwards, so thanks goes to the crack-head that designed today's cement mixers.

[offset57]

200 Slump?

[TheBrandonPerkins]

@imhorney3141974

lol ... Agilia has a slump of like 24"-30". You measure how far it spreads out basically. The Agilia flows out like water, but gets just as strong as concrete normally does. It has a lot of sand in it though, so if you are pumping it through a mobile concrete pump and stop, all the Sand drops to the bottom of the pipe and you get a sand plug. As long as the concrete is moving, it stays flowable.

[imhorney3141974]

I work in concrete and want to know if they slumped that to a 7 or 8 with water or did they use plasticizor? That stuff was soup, how could they say it has much PSI left? Is that why it so thick and has all that steel?

[153eddy]

Awesome video! Love the national Toronto ontario ready mix industrial concrete on-site