Powerhouse is a revolutionary premium custom home concrete mix developed by Breckenridge Material Company’s team of quality control and technical engineers. The Powerhouse mix is a proprietary blend of portland cement, ground granulated blast furnace slag, and Class C fly ash cementitious materials. The new material delivers custom home builders, architects, engineers and homeowners the most advanced concrete foundation mix that the residential market has ever seen.
Breckenridge Material Company, a family-owned and operated St. Louis-based ready-mix supplier founded in 1926, is the largest concrete producer in Missouri, serving both the greater metropolitan St. Louis region and Illinois. Breckenridge is ranked as the 67th largest concrete producer in North America by the Concrete Producer.
With nearly 90 years of experience, Breckenridge Material Co. has become the market’s leader in engineering new concrete designs that not only meet but surpass even the most stringent of concrete specifications.
Having been the only ready-mix supplier in the region to have the capabilities to work on projects requiring the most advanced specifications including self- consolidating concrete, pervious concrete, high strength structural mixes, lightweight, architectural, low permeability, and flow fill mixes, Breckenridge Material has become known as an industry leader capable of engineering the most advanced mixes available. The technical expertise and experience with specialty concrete of Breckenridge Material gave way for developing the most technically advanced concrete mix that has ever hit the custom residential market.
Breckenridge Material developed a new mix called Powerhouse. The mix was derived from Breckenridge Material’s experience working on highly technical projects across multiple sectors, including ICI construction, civil works and heavy highway. The end product delivers high early strength, low shrinkage, durability and greater aesthetic properties.
Compared to a traditional foundation mix, Powerhouse offers a finished product that rivals the strength of ICI construction, low shrinkage of wastewater treatment plants and the durability of heavy highways. In addition, Powerhouse provides an aesthetically pleasing end product with less ‘bug holes’ and honeycombing and lighter in color. Powerhouse offers significant benefits to architects, engineers, homebuilders and homeowners when compared to traditional foundation mixes.
Powerhouse is the strongest, most durable mix ever offered in the residential market. It is 2 to 3 times the strength required by building codes and has high-early strength, in turn mitigating lateral soil pressure cracks caused by early backfilling.
Powerhouse test results substantiate these claims, on average. Powerhouse had the following break results: seven day break of 6,370 psi, and a 28 day break average of 8,975 psi. Those numbers compar favorably to traditional foundation mixes that averaged a seven day break of 3,142 psi and a 28 day average of 4,178 psi.
Powerhouse offers additional cracking mitigation including 94 percent less shrinkage compared to standard/traditional foundation mixes. Powerhouse is also much less porous compared to traditional mixes and its density makes it resistant to moisture entering the foundation.
Additional Information
Powerhouse provides significant benefits to home builders and homeowners including (but not limited to):
STRENGTH
• Strongest, most durable mix ever offered on the market
• 2 – 3 times the strength required by county code
• Resistant to cracking due to lateral soil pressure
• High-early strength
SHRINKAGE
• 94% less shrinkage compared to standard/traditional foundation mixes
• Mitigates hairline cracking due to shrinkage
PERMEABILITY
• Density makes it resistant to moisture
• Dramatically less porous than traditional foundation mixes
GREATER AESTHETIC APPEARANCE
• Finished product provides aesthetic qualities including lighter color, less bug holes and
smoother finish
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