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Manufacture and Placement of Ultra Heavyweight Concrete
When radiation shielding was needed for a new addition to the Lahey Hospital and Medical Center (LHMC) in Burlington, MA, heavyweight concrete proved to be the obvious solution. While some concrete producers and contractors may have experience in working with high-density aggregates, few can provide concrete with a unit weight of 325 pound/cubic feet. That's more than double the density of normalweight portland cement concrete mixtures and about two-thirds the density of steel. Nuclear Shielding Supplies & Service (NSS) in Tucson, AZ, turned out to have a product that was just what the doctor ordered. Their extensive experience with heavyweight concrete spans over five decades of service to the nuclear, medical, and industrial radiation shielding industries, including projects at McMaster University, Hamilton, ON, Canada; Centre hospitalier de l'Universite de Montreal, Montreal, QC, Canada; and McGill University, Montreal, QC, Canada. This history showed that NSS could meet the requirements for the LHMC project and provide assistance along the way to help LCS place the material without any glitches.
Manufacture and Placement of Ultra Heavyweight Concrete
When radiation shielding was needed for a new addition to the Lahey Hospital and Medical Center (LHMC) in Burlington, MA, heavyweight concrete proved to be the obvious solution. While some concrete producers and contractors may have experience in working with high-density aggregates, few can provide concrete with a unit weight of 325 pound/cubic feet. That's more than double the density of normalweight portland cement concrete mixtures and about two-thirds the density of steel. Nuclear Shielding Supplies & Service (NSS) in Tucson, AZ, turned out to have a product that was just what the doctor ordered. Their extensive experience with heavyweight concrete spans over five decades of service to the nuclear, medical, and industrial radiation shielding industries, including projects at McMaster University, Hamilton, ON, Canada; Centre hospitalier de l'Universite de Montreal, Montreal, QC, Canada; and McGill University, Montreal, QC, Canada. This history showed that NSS could meet the requirements for the LHMC project and provide assistance along the way to help LCS place the material without any glitches.
Manufacture and Placement of Ultra Heavyweight Concrete
Jim Noller (author) / Manjit Chopra / Kyle Hargreaves / Brian H Green
2016
Article (Journal)
English
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