The Concrete Centre

The Concrete Centre at Danish Technological Institute is the largest knowledge centre in Denmark for concrete and it belongs to one of the largest in Europe. At the Concrete Centre we can provide you and your business with assistance to develop and implement the newest concrete technology based on our state-of-the-art knowledge, ranging from the individual concrete constituents to the hardened product in a reinforced structure.

We act as consultants for all parties working with concrete – design, engineers, craftsmen, contractors, production plants, the prefab industry and building owners.
We are actively involved in several national and international R&D projects and we have internationally recognised experts within the fields of self compacting concrete, green concrete, hardening technology, concrete mix design and petrography.

A well equipped laboratory for all types of tests and measurements related to the concrete materials testing and structural testing is available and we have a number of non destructive testing equipment to use for on-site testing, e.g. Georadar, S´mash and Impact Echo.  A special new facility is the high technology laboratory where computers and robots make new formwork to realise architects visions and where a full automated concrete mixer produces the future concrete material, i.e.
self compacting concrete.

Our international activities include:

• European standardisation
• Consultants for bigger civil structure projects such as the Bhosporus tunnel project in Istanbul, Turkey and the Malmoe City tunnel in Sweden
• Testing, e.g. a mobile laboratory to monitor early age creep and shrinkage
• Sale of computer programmes for curing planning and concrete mix design,
  4C Temp & Stress and 4C Packing
• Sale of equipment for monitoring of rheology for developing and optimising mix design of self compacting concrete, 4C-Rheometer
• Training courses in e.g. concrete petrography
• Member of international networks such as the research network for cement, NANOCEM, and member of task groups in fib and RILEM
• Coordination and participation in European funded research projects such as TESCOP, EcoServe, Marie Curie research training network  and LIFE project Biocrete