Construction technology provider C-Probe has scooped two accolades at the 2021 Leeds Beckett University RISE Awards.
The RISE Awards aim to recognise, celebrate and showcase exemplar case studies from the Built Environment, sharing emerging best practice in Research, Innovation, Sustainability and Enterprise for new and innovative products, technologies, processes, projects and schemes.
Merseyside-based C-Probe has long prided itself on developing low-carbon alternative cements and internet-enabled corrosion management systems among other products. Its successes in the field of pioneering low-carbon and sustainable technologies saw the company awarded the Heritage Award for Restoration at this year’s RISE Awards, as well as being declared winner in the Design, Innovation and Creativity category.
C-Probe’s LoCem® & +point® product was the catalyst for the Heritage Award for Restoration success. The product is a low carbon geopolymer bed joint anode used for the sustainable enhanced service life of transitional steel frame buildings.
The LoCem product range [fireproof tunnel segments pictured] is the brainchild of a fruitful R&D collaboration between C-Probe, Sheffield Hallam University and Mott MacDonald consulting engineers. Developed as a range of geopolymer mortar and concrete technologies, LoCem was initially installed at a trial site at Leeds Civic Hall and its first full commercial contract came at The Commerce Bank in Kansas City as -Probe’s LoCem +point® anode mortar in the early 2010s. C-Probe launched an alkali-activated cementitious material [AACM geopolymers] blending plant shortly thereafter to ramp-up production and strengthen the product’s position in the market.
Speaking about the LoCem range, managing director Graeme Jones said: “Our aim is to add low carbon and ‘smart’ mortars as well as concrete that add service life control to structures complementary with, as well as disruptive to, Portland concretes. These materials are branded as LoCem and are used for a range of trademarked restoration and build products to repair, protect and add high resilience to structures.
“These are in the form of anode mortars for galvanic protection – C-Puck, heritage stone and brick repointing – +point, reinforced concrete applications – +chase and +shot – LoCem concrete repair and heritage void fill mortars, as well as precast concrete – WoWSmart. These AACMs supplement C-Probe’s original market offering of embeddable monitoring with online performance control and management products. Together, they offer security of service design life in a sustainable, accountable and trackable way.”
C-Probe’s other 2021 RISE Award, in recognition of the firm’s prowess in Design, Innovation and Creativity, recognised one of its corrosion management system products: the Achilles Interactive Management Server [AiMS].
AiMS is a facility provided by C-Probe to clients who have installed a network management system from the Achilles Suite of Structural Healthcare Systems. It is accessed through the internet via secure password controls, providing remote access to the CAD archive and intelligent reporting for control of structures and corrosion monitoring.
The system can manage single structures or be expanded to cover a portfolio of buildings, and it can also be used to provide access to information on performance for third party opinion, or even to provide due diligence information on corrosion prevention during the sale of a building.
Everybody at The Leaders Council extends a huge congratulations to the team at C-Probe for their success at the 2021 RISE Awards!
