DYNAMax
High Strength Concrete with a Difference
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.
When you choose DYNAMax, you get a team of technical experts and a comprehensive service backed by Holcim’s global experience in getting the job done.
With less material needed, DYNAMax has the capability to help you achieve your sustainability goals.
Get more, with less. DYNAMax; the ultimate performance concrete.
DYNAMax is the ultimate high performance concrete, engineered to meet today's design challenges.
Achieve your goals with DYNAMaX
DYNAMax can help you achieve your project’s potential. It can help you with slender design, larger spans or simply provide you with greater design freedom.
With unrivalled technical understanding and a track record in delivering complex and challenging builds, our team of technical experts will work with you to create a DYNAMax solution specific to your needs.
We take the time to learn about your project’s ambitions and tailor a unique solution to meet those challenges, ensuring you’re getting a product that suits your build.
From low shrinkage, pumpability, elasticity and flexural strength, you can get the functionality and flexibility you need with DYNAMax.
DYNAMax in action: Australia’s tallest residential skyscraper, Australia 108
Dematerialise your project with DYNAMax
The benefits of dematerialisation are widely recognised. A study conducted by Clean Energy Finance Corporation, highlighted how reductions to embodied carbon may be realised through dematerialisation by 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, using high strength concrete, like DYNAMax, can lead to an overall reduction in the amount of cement required for a construction 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.
Frequently asked questions
DYNAMax is available in 60MPa, 80MPa, and 100+MPa, and with a range of additional extras including superior rigidity, low shrinkage, self-compacting, pumpability, flowability, carbon offsets, and maturity testing.
With DYNAMax you have the option to use third party certified offsets under the Australian Government program, Climate Active.
DYNAMax can enable you to dematerialise your project through its high strength and performance properties. Dematerialisation provides benefits such as a reduction in resource consumption, more efficient structures and forms, increasing the circular economy, recyclability and reuse.
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Want to learn more about what DYNAMax can do for your next project? Drop us a line and someone from our team will be in touch.
| 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. |
