Holcim offers faster road-repair solution
Building solutions provider Holcim Philippines Inc. shared new construction technologies helpful to the country’s infrastructure drive in the government forum on building innovation recently.
Presenting it was the Indonesian affiliate, Holcim Indonesia, on its role in the fast repair of Jakarta’s roads.
Construction manager for Holcim Indonesia, Rizko Pradana Andika, spoke at the 2017 Rapid Construction Methods Symposium of the Department of Public Works and Highways on the company’s partnership with the Jakarta government to quickly rehabilitate the city’s bus lanes to counter traffic congestion. With Holcim Indonesia’s SpeedCrete system, the roads were quickly passable in only seven hours, compared to two weeks with the conventional method.
Holcim Philippines has also successfully deployed in the country a 24-hour concrete called SuperFastcrete for quick road repairs of major thoroughfares. In Indonesia’s case, Holcim supplies the building material and does the construction.
With the government interested in innovative technology to support its infrastructure program, Holcim Philippines has increasingly introduced more value-adding innovative approaches and technologies for better building in the Philippines.
Backed by leading global construction materials provider LafargeHolcim, Holcim Philippines is confident that it can provide more than cement to support the country’s infrastructure drive particularly for road projects for which the DPWH is set to receive P640 billion in 2018.