Concrete Maturity and Weather Planning

Successfully placing concrete requires adequate planning and preparation for many factors, one of the most important being weather. The Braun Intertec concrete consulting team utilizes both experience and engineering tools to help their clients plan and monitor the placement and curing of their concrete structures in challenging environments.

• Cold Weather Planning – Newly placed concrete subjected to cold temperatures can experience slow curing and, if it freezes, permanently reduced strength. Our team tailors applicable cold weather guidelines to our clients’ specific project needs to help protect their structures from cold weather. 
• Hot Weather Concreting – Placing concrete in high temperatures can accelerate the rate of moisture loss and increase the rate of cement hydration, which can in turn lead to consolidation and air entrainment difficulties, poor surface quality, decreased concrete strength, and thermal cracking. Our team helps clients plan for hot weather with creative solutions such as utilizing admixtures, properly timing delivery and protection strategies, and controlling the batch delivery temperature. 
• Maturity Monitoring – The rate of strength gain of concrete is dependent on the concrete temperature and age. Concrete maturity is the relationship between temperature, time, and compressive strength, which is used to estimate the in-situ compressive strength of concrete. Braun Intertec uses maturity monitoring on projects for cold weather protection, as well as timing for stressing post-tension cables and form removal. With more than 30 years of experience of implementing maturity on construction projects, we are here to help with yours.