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Ecological materials

Ecological utilization of waste materials

• Assessments of technological and ecological suitability of industrial waste materials
  • Classical and fluidized ashes and fly-ashes
  • Waste foundry sands
  • Clinkers
  • Slag
  • Clinkers and fly-ashes from incinerators
  • Slag-heaps
  • Polluted soils
  • Various types of sludges, etc.
• Assessment of industrial inert and hazardous wastes utilization for building and other purposes
• Projection of non-waste technologies on utilization industrial waste materials for building purposes
• Assessment of especially bulk cargo industrial waste materials utilization for recultivation, landscape-making, line construction and others
• Preparation of basis for certification of proposed final products
• Economical analyses of suggested ways of industrial waste materials utilization

Ecological production technologies

• Assessment of complex suitability of natural and secondary raw materials for the traditional and non-traditional technologies
• Design of optimal production technologies of building materials for processing of industrial waste materials especially in the field of
  • porous concrete
  • foam concrete
  • light-weight concrete
  • normal concrete
  • concrete mixtures for special purposes
  • artificial aggregate - cold hardening and hydrothermal hardening
  • stabilized materials and others
• Design of technological processing ways of re-cultivation mixtures
  • backfilling material
  • ground shaping
  • road spreadings for winter road maintenance
  • sub-bases and others
• Verification of suggested technological ways and processing by means of laboratory, pilot plant and working tests
• Assessment of properties of resulting building matters, building products and other products

Technical services

• Technological regulations of production
• Factory standards of products including ecological requirements
• Standards and consultancy activity
• Technological basis for certification including ecological tests
• Technical assistance for manufacturing corporations

Technological laboratory of ecological materials

• Testing of physical properties of raw materials, materials and products and verification of their technological suitability
• Preparation of laboratory test specimens and pilot plant production
• Frost resistance tests, tests of resistance against de-icing substances and durability tests

Mountain laboratory "Bílý Kříž"

(locality Bílý Kříž in Beskydy - 900 m above sea level)

• Monitoring of influence of weather conditions on specimens, materials and products placed in mountain test station

Note: Testing after relevant time of placing is carried out in laboratories of Research Institute of Building Materials in Brno

Contacts

Head of section Ecological materials
Ing. Pavel Leber
phone: +420 543 529 317
e-mail: leber@vustah.cz

Head of Research and development of ecological materials
Ing. Petr Bibora
phone: +420 543 529 298
e-mail: bibora@vustah.cz

Head of Technological laboratory of ecological materials
Lubomír Zavřel
phone: +420 543 529 288
e-mail: zavrel@vustah.cz