I've posted this in hotcopper and thought I'd post it here in case it is of interest to some. - regards
Were the I-20 and a maintenance facility actually the acid tests for Edencrete with stunning results?
I mentioned in my posts 3x the I-20 interstate highway which has no visible cracking 1 year on, but looking at the announcements I keep finding something special about it, and also with regard to the maint facility project reported in 1 April. Regarding I-20, EC was used in a troublesome section of the highway and has high water content in the sub-surface beneath the road surface, which often results in a relatively short service life of the concrete roadway surface.
With regard to the maintenance facility, this is what the 1 April announcement said:
"The concrete at the maintenance facility is exposed to extreme rolling loads, impact loads and abrasive wear; and several times each year, under a scheduled maintenance programme, sections of the hard stand area that are severely cracked and require replacement are ripped up and replaced "
What is the point? This: if the field trials in California, Colorado, New York, Georgia and Maryland before December 2016 are done in less problematic roads than I-20, I'd say the success rate is 100%, and if done in similar troublesome roads, I am confident the success rate is 99%. Now I'm comfortable to invest in a 99% success rate scenario. How about you?
Please D.y.o.r., foregoing is imo.
Cheers
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For substantiation, Below was 19 July company update, (now add almost 3 months to the date, and would be nice if another update is provided even though I expect it's still intact.)
Eden Energy Limited (ASX: EDE) is pleased to announce a recent visual examination of the current state of repair of the EdenCreteTM enriched section of concrete laid on 26 August 2015 as a field trial of EdenCreteTM on a troublesome section of the Interstate Highway I-20 in Augusta, Georgia for the Georgia Department of Transportation (“GDOT”) (see Eden ASX Announcement ASX: EDE 27 August 2015 and Figure 1 below) is showing no visible cracking or significant signs of wear after 11 months of highway wear.
The control section, laid on 27 August 2015 on the adjoining section of the same lane on I- 20, and using the same concrete mix but containing no EdenCreteTM, is however, already showing a significant crack developing (see Figure 3 below), 11 months later.
The trial section of the I-20 has high water content in the sub-surface beneath the road surface, which often results in a relatively short service life of the concrete roadway surface.
This result from the EdenCreteTM I-20 Field Trial mirrors a similar result in a commercial field trial in October 2015 (see Eden ASX announcement ASX:EDE 1 April 2016) where, in a six months’ field trial of EdenCreteTM using of the same GDOT 24 Hour Repair Concrete Mix in an application that is subject to extreme wear and abrasion (see Figure 4), no cracking or visible wear was evident. However, there was significant cracking and visible wear in the control slab (see Figure 5) within the same 6 months period. As a result, EdenCreteTM was then selected for used is a subsequent commercial replacement programme at the site.
