DYNAMax® is a high strength concrete that combines traditional strength, performance and quality properties with technical, innovation and service solutions to help you dematerialise your project.
DYNAMax helps to support more efficient structural design, reduce material demand and give architects, engineers and contractors greater flexibility across complex builds.
DYNAMax can be used in a range of applications including: self-compacting, piling, precast, post tension, core and columns, foundations and larger spans.
DYNAMax is the ultimate high performance concrete, engineered to meet today's design challenges.
Achieve your goals with DYNAMaX
DYNAMax can help unlock your project’s potential. It supports slender design, larger spans and greater design freedom for complex builds.
With strong technical expertise and a track record across demanding projects, our team works with you to develop a DYNAMax solution tailored to your needs. We take the time to understand your project ambitions and create a concrete solution that suits the build. From low shrinkage and pumpability to elasticity and flexural strength, DYNAMax delivers the functionality and flexibility needed for high-performance applications.
Dematerialise your project with DYNAMax
Build more with less material
The benefits of dematerialisation are widely recognised. DYNAMax can help reduce embodied carbon by enabling more efficient structural design and using less material in the build.
High-strength concrete products like DYNAMax require significantly less concrete overall to support a given load. As a result, DYNAMax can help reduce the amount of cement required for a construction project, while also supporting more efficient structures and lower overall material demand.
How DYNAMax can support your project
| Key benefits of dematerialisation to your project | What this means for you | Example benefits |
|---|---|---|
| Reduce resource consumption | Due to its increased load-carrying strength (per cubic metre), DYNAMax can result in less material used. This means lower volumes of concrete transported to site, reduced need for reinforcing steel, and lower materials overall. | A 20% saving in cement is achievable for structures designed to bear a large load and where a significant reduction in volume is possible2. This could equate to ~18% reduction in CO2-e emissions per m33. |
| More efficient structures and forms | Due to its high strength, DYNAMax can be used to build structural components and structures required with significantly less concrete and steel reinforcement. | If you’re able to reduce reinforcing steel, for example, by 15%, you can reduce 15% of carbon emissions4. |
| Contribute to the circular economy | High strength concrete, like DYNAMax, can contribute to the circular economy through use of waste and co-products, such as blast furnace slag, silica fume, and fly ash from other industries. | High strength concrete speaks to several circular economy principles such as designing out waste and pollution through the use of co-products. Studies have shown that the use of high strength concrete increases the asset's longevity due to increased material durability2. |
| Recyclability and reuse | Like all concrete, DYNAMax is fully recyclable or reusable – whether for use in aggregates or by retaining a structure for the next design. | By retaining as much of a building’s existing structure, projects can see a reduction in embodied carbon, carbon emissions, and construction delivery timeframe5. |
A unique service solution with DYNAMax
DYNAMax is supported by a service solution designed to minimise disruptions, improve project delivery, and help you achieve sustainability credentials for your building.
Holcim pairs digital advancements in construction with the industry’s leading concrete expertise. Utilising Holcim’s suite of digital services that enable us to tailor-make solutions to build better and smarter concrete structures, DYNAMax’s services ensure you’re getting the best quality at each stage of the delivery process.
Talk to your Holcim representative about the service solutions available to you.
Experience you can rely on with DYNAMax
With more than 120 years’ experience in the built environment, we are proud to be one of Australia’s largest integrated suppliers and manufacturers of building materials and solutions.
We have operations at around 250 sites across Australia including 165 plants and a fleet of over 900 concrete agitators, which means we have the size and scale to match the needs of your project.
Feel confident knowing that when you choose DYNAMax, you’re gaining a build partner with the experience needed to get the job done.
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| 1. Source: Clean Energy Finance Corporation (2021). Australian buildings and infrastructure: Opportunities for cutting embodied carbon 2. Source: Beyond Zero Emissions (2017). Zero Carbon Industry Plan, Rethinking Cement. 3. Modelling based on data from Beyond Zero Emissions (BZE) report and SimaProv v9.1 calculations for Australian buildings and infrastructure: Opportu- nities for cutting embodied carbon report. 4. Calculated by using reinforcing steel GWP factor from AusLCI (1.6013058 kg CO2 eq per kg of reinforcing steel) 5. Source: AMP Capital, Quay Quarter Tower Sydney Case Study. |
