Ductal® Advantages

With compressive strengths, flexural strengths and durability far exceeding high performance concretes, Ductal® is the leading technology in cement and concrete materials

The most creative architects and most demanding project owners consider Ductal® as their preferred material due to its unique set of physical characteristics and aesthetic qualities on many major projects worldwide as witnessed by the many examples of its deployment visible on this site.

The qualities of Ductal® make it a particularly innovative material for major construction and civil engineering projects and offer an alternative to materials such as steel, iron, aluminum, plastic or wood. It is perfectly complementary to other materials, being able to blend with them or to differentiate from them. It can also be used on creative projects, to decorate facades, surfaces, or for solutions that are both aesthetic and resistant to the various environments, for example bridge or tunnel construction.

Elegant forms that were previously too complex are now within the realms of the achievable. Lafarge has carried out in-depth work and produced specific molding systems to assist architectural work. This enables the production of highly diversified forms cheaply and with few molds. These new deployment techniques are protected by patents.

Ductal® is used to lighten the overall weight of structures with thinner form factors, requiring little or no passive reinforcement for most applications. In this way, it enables savings across many links in the value chain including the reduction in quantity of materials used, faster construction through prefabrication, transportion to site and erection.

Ductal® is also an excellent field cast joint fill material for bridges with precast deck panels; a cost-effective, durable solution with simplified fabrication and installation processes. Benefits are numerous, including superior resistance to freeze/thaw, impact and abrasion, as well as continuous flexing across joints (from truck loads).