The client’s point of view on the realisation of a geopolymer concrete bridge with recycled concrete aggregates
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Bibliographic Details
| Author(s): |
C. B. M. (Kees) Blom
(Engineering department city of Rotterdam, Delft university of technology, The Netherlands)
W. D. (William) Schutte (Engineering department city of Rotterdam, The Netherlands) A. P. (Albert) Allaart (Engineering department city of Rotterdam, The Netherlands) J. L. M. (Joep) van Leeuwen (Engineering department city of Rotterdam, The Netherlands) |
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| Medium: | conference paper | ||||
| Language(s): | English | ||||
| Conference: | IABSE Symposium: Construction’s Role for a World in Emergency, Manchester, United Kingdom, 10-14 April 2024 | ||||
| Published in: | IABSE Symposium Manchester 2024 | ||||
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| Page(s): | 730-737 | ||||
| Total no. of pages: | 8 | ||||
| DOI: | 10.2749/manchester.2024.0730 | ||||
| Abstract: |
The city of Rotterdam in the Netherlands has been involved in the North West European Interreg URBCON program. This program includes the development of geopolymer concrete based on the client demands and the application in demonstration projects. Rotterdam acts as client willing to tender for a geopolymer concrete bridge including recycled concrete aggregates. A major difficulty is that the newly developed material has no track record, there is no tendering and building experience and the existing framework (i.e. EC2) is not formally applicable. This paper shows the interesting observations and the learnings from the client’s point of view, based on being part of the URBCON program and the actual design, tendering process and realisation of the geopolymer concrete bridge. |
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| Keywords: |
concrete bridge contractor tests tendering contract geopolymer client decks upscaling supplier
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