SD Vision - Halyps Cement

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ALIPRE ® for lower CO 2 emissions
ALIPRE ® , Italcementi Group’s brand for
its family of products based on calcium
sulphoaluminate technology, is one of the
main products in i.nova. It is an example of
a hi-tech environmentally friendly product,
produced with far lower CO 2 emissions than
traditional cement. These new construction
materials targeted at architects and
designers interested in “good building”
practices, those that balance aesthetics
and environmental impact of new
constructions.
Depending on the technical requirements
and the applications of the fi nal
products, ALIPRE ® can be used as main
component or as secondary constituent
to adjust workability time, setting time
and mechanical strength and achieve
special products performances such as
rapid setting, high early strength, increased
sulphate resistance and shrinkage compensation.
ALIPRE ® based products are
obtained by mixing calcium sulphoaluminate
clinker with calcium sulphate and
Portland cement. Appropriate blends of the
three components address a wide range of
needs such as:
p highly adjustable setting time
p rapid early strength development
p progressive strength increase, exceeding
top-performing Portland cements
p low shrinkage values
p low alkali content.
The new product line is a perfect choice for
producing adhesives, mortars, concrete,
rapid and semi-rapid screeds and sealants
featuring low shrinkage and excellent
durability. An effective solution for a wide
variety of applications: paving and fl ooring,
tunnelling, waste treatment, acid-resistant
coatings.
ALIPRE ® technology is available in products
formulated in response to a large number
of specifi c applications:
p ALIFLO ® - Technology for fl ooring
p ALIECO ® - Technology for waste
treatment
p ALISPID ® - Technology for accelerating
concrete
p ALICOAT ® - Technology for coatings
p ALICAST ® - Technology for molded
elements.
Italcementi helps founding
Green Building Council Italia
I talcementi is one of the founding members of the Green Building Council Italia.
The purpose of GBC Italia is to introduce the LEED – Leadership in Energy and
Environmental Design – independent certifi cation system in Italy. This system
provides the parameters of specifi c design and construction criteria for energy-effi cient
green buildings with reduced environmental impact.
i.lab as a reference point
of eco-sustainable architecture
and innovation
i.lab is an important proof of Italcementi
Group’s commitment to eco-sustainable
architecture. It is the new research and
innovation center of the Group – designed
by Richard Meier – under construction in the
scientifi c and technological Kilometro Rosso
Park area. i.lab occupies an area of 11,000
m 2 including 7,500 m 2 of research laboratories.
Intended as an architectural benchmark
for energy savings and innovative design
quality, the building delivers maximum
environmental performance to comply
with the strict Leadership in Energy and
Environmental Design (LEED) standards,
the leading sustainable construction certifi
cation program in the USA. At a technological
level, in addition to its important
architectural features, the i.lab project
makes extensive use of alternative sources
of energy: the roof will be fi tted with
photovoltaic panels for production of
more than 54,560 kWh of electricity, and
with 250 m 2 of solar panels serving the
heating and air-conditioning plant, for
an overall saving of 12.7 tons of conventional
fossil fuel. Further energy savings
will be achieved thanks to a geothermal
system using heat stored in the soil and
subsoil, while the building will be plastered
with “smog-eating” cement based on
TX Active ® , the photocatalytic principle
that enables surfaces to conserve their
original appearance and plays a signifi cant
role in eliminating pollutants in the
i.lab, Italy, under construction
atmosphere. Moreover LEED requires the
use of recycled content materials, local
materials, rapidly renewable materials,
salvaged or refurbished materials, materials
with low emission of organic substances and
certifi ed wood. Following this approach,
it was decided that part of the reinforced
concrete structure should be obtained from
slag cements (that may have up to 30% of
their weight composed of salvaged material)
together with steels obtained 100% from
the industrial processing recycle.
The building has been assigned the Green
Good Design Award by “The Chicago
Athenaeum: Museum of Architecture
and Design” and “The European Center
for Architecture Art Design and Urban
Studies”, as the most innovative industrial
achievement of 2009. The Green Good
Design Award is a prestigious honour
instituted in 1950 in Chicago by a group
of distinguished engineers and designers,
among them Eero Saarinen, Edgar J.