Lightweight Foamed Concrete

Turning Crisis Into Opportunities

If one knows 10/90 Rule, then it is much easier understanding how to turn crisis into opportunities. Let me elaborate, 90% of people in the world do the same things everyday and earn only the 10% of the income while the rest 10% of the population does a different things but yet earn the 90% of the income. With this explanation, let me take your further to my paperwork which is related to the Industrialised Building System articles and how to make create income from the idea.

My proposal is about lightweight concrete products (LWC). LWC products are not hightech but hightech or lowtech are not relevant here as the most important subject matter here is the 10/90 Rule as I said earlier. The history of concrete invention started say 100 years ago after the discovery of poultry making using clay. It was discovered that a right mix of sand, cement and will make a concrete mix. Upon hardening period, the mix will become a hardened concrete. However, the hardened concrete itself is brittle in nature until an American scientist found that a reinforced concrete (I mean a conrete reinforced with steel) will make the concrete flexible. But than, the combination of them, concrete and steel, will make the concrete itself heavier. As time passes and technology improves, the engineers, architects, scientist started looking for strong yet flexible and lighter products. This is how lightweight foamed concrete products was discovered. Nobody really know who was the inventor of lighweight foamed concrete products but as I said earlier if you apply 10/90 Rule, it does not matter and it is not relevant.

UEM LiteTechs

This proposal is to examine the viability and feasibility of using UEM LiteTechs as alternative to the already existing and manipulative non-structural infill walls in the Malaysia market. The focus is to leverage on the benefits of new technologies for the best interest of UEM, reduce the project costs, improve the profit margin without compromising the quality and end-product to the Client. If successful, it is foreseen that UEM will become the own producer and supplier of the lightweight products.

UEM LiteTechs products come with the following advantages and benefits :

• fire resistant. Products are inorganic and fire-retardant
• energy savings. Superior insulation ensures a pleasant environment
• lightweight. Products are 25% lighter thus reducing substructure and superstructure cost
• good acoustics. Excellent sound barrier delivers effective acoustic performance
• accuracy of manufactured products. Precisely manufactured thus eliminating trimmings
• rapid on-site assembly. Ease of assembly will reduce the number of installers
• non-toxic.

Manufacturing of UEM LiteTechs products

1. Plant system and machinery

• mixer of 2 cum volume capacity
• foaming agent
• automatic controls, chemical pump & control panel
• pressure dischange system
• conveyor belt of silo tank
• moulds or formworks (based on site requirements)

2. The schematic diagram is shown in the above slide

3. Electrical fixtures

• power supply panel
• ELCB and auto run system
• automatic controls
• 1 unit of drive motor and 1 unit of chemical pump
• andolenoid control
• control buttons
• reverse mix system

4. Plant location is in the GAPIMA warehouse in Shah Alam. The available area is 70,000 sqft but for this proposal the initial required area is 5,000 sqft.

5. Plant capacity

• 1.2cum/mix @ 20 minutes. For 8hr shift, total volume is 24cum.
• 48cum for 2 shifts/day
• capacity also depends on the number of moulds. This proposal call for 30 blocks/mould

6. Training will be provided for 1 week upon which the operators of 3 shall be competent to operate the plant system

7. The UEM LiteTech concrete products are then poured into moulds to manufacture UEM LiteTech Blocks sized at 600mm(L) X 200mm(H) X 100mm(W). 1 block unit is equivalent to 8 conventional Malaysia clay bricks. After curing process of 8 hours, the blocks can be demoulded and ready for use.