BUILD Construction & Engineering Awards 2024 Resolutely focused on supplying specialized construction materials for the most demanding of tasks and in the most abusive environments, Steelike, Inc. created a proprietary ultra-high performance concrete for the broader build market. Powered by technical innovations that delivers improved constructability and superior material properties, Steelike has successfully supplied a myriad of major infrastructure projects, enabling the preservation, restoration, repair, hardening, replacement, protection and new construction of highways, tunnels, railways, and more. Below, we explore how Steelike’s innovations and successes have earned it BUILD Magazine’s pick for the Most Innovative UHPC Product 2024 – USA. Most Innovative UHPC Product 2024 - USA Contact: Bill Kulish Company: Steelike, Inc. Web Address: https://steelike.com Steelike, Inc. benefitted from its Founder’s over twenty-years of innovative journey in cementitious material design, which led him to discover the unique properties of ultra-high performance concrete and develop his own from the ground up. The result is what we see today – Steelike UHPC. This new UHPC was then submitted to a series of rigorous tests in accordance with ASTM International standards, which showed that it meets, and in most cases exceeds, the performance requirements of the Federal Highway Administration (FHWA) for UHPC. In 2014, Steelike UHPC was commercialized for the first time, offering the marketplace a new UHPC material with a unique particle packing. Today, Steelike UHPC has been market-proven through commercial use in applications in defense, highway and rail infrastructure, including over fifty bridges. These projects demonstrated the unique material properties of Steelike UHPC, setting it apart from other materials in this class. These advantages primarily manifest through the product’s unmatched compressive strength, considerably higher flexural strength, imperviousness to water and caustic elements including salt, unparalleled freeze-thaw resistance, and drastically improved scaling resistance. In addition to these best-in-class material properties, Steelike’s technical innovations also deliver flexibility and adaptability to unpredictable construction environments. This includes the ability to extend the workability of the mix in the broadest range of ambient temperatures, and enabling a multitude of placement methods. In addition, Steelike produces a pre-blended, all-white mix, that is consistent in quality, and essentially just-add-water at the construction site. Moreover, bridge contractors marvelled that using Steelike UHPC enabled them to reduce steps required for all other UHPC products, saving them precious time, labor and material waste across their projects, and simultaneously minimizing detrimental environmental impact by eliminating hazardous dust produced by grinding and reducing waste. Steelike UHPC champions in every category, allowing users to pursue sustainability, while improving quality and strength. And, with the recent introduction of the first-ever patent pending pumping and spray UHPC technology, Steelike has made it known that it doesn’t intend to end its ongoing mission of delivering innovative cementitious solutions. Steelike UHPC boasts all the qualities necessary to make any highly demanding construction project as straightforward and robust as possible. Truly, no UHPC company within the U.S. has managed to produce such a versatile and innovative product, defining Steelike as the choice for major commercial projects. Set on leading the charge toward a broader future for the UHPC industry, Steelike is a standout entity that leverages its innate skill and inspired ideas to cultivate change on a massive scale. Already, Steelike UHPC has served a wide clientele, each able to finally equip themselves with a product that takes every aspect of the process into consideration. By improving the experience from the construction stage through usage by the end-user, there are no limits to Steelike’s vision, and it's for this very reason that BUILD Magazine is proud to present it with a recognition in the Construction and Engineering Awards 2024.
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