Our Capabilities
Flood-Mitigating & Sustainable Rigid Pavements
CUPOLEX® concrete cast-in-place engineered rigid pavements are designed for stormwater capture to mitigate flood risk. This design converts risk-driving impervious pavements into resilient assets and extends the life of existing water infrastructure by reducing the hydrological load.
Soil Cell Concrete Pavements & Low Impact Developments
A CUPOLEX® concrete cast-in-place Soil Cell Pavement is a green infrastructure facility designed to provide superior structural integrity of the pavement and growing media for trees.
Unlike other systems, the depths are completely customized, the pavement is not supported by soil and there is an aerated void beneath the pavement and soil. Soil Cells can also be designed with stormwater management benefits.
Engineered Concrete Structures for Stormwater Capture
CUPOLEX® offers sub-surface water storage chambers with maximum structural integrity and flexibility to adjust for area, depth and volume. We deliver more cost effective, flexible and adaptive approaches to flood management beyond the traditional pipe, conventional chamber and pond systems.
Whether your site needs a detention system to prevent storm drain overloading, a groundwater recharge system for Low-Impact Development (LID), a stormwater treatment system to improve water quality, or a complete stormwater harvesting system, CUPOLEX® will provide your solution.
Stormwater Discharge Control Integrated into Building Structures
CUPOLEX® supports designers and engineers in understanding that cost-effective resilient mechanisms can be easily integrated into virtually any building project, which increases the performance and attractiveness of the given space.
Applications include:
- Roofs
- Foundations
- Structural deck slabs
- Parking garages
- Terraces
- Loading dock pads
Flood-Proofing & Harvesting for Buildings
CUPOLEX® design solutions integrate cost effective engineered foundations to residential, commercial and institutional buildings that mitigate flooding or integrate water harvesting chambers.
Active or Passive Vapour Intrusion Mitigation
CUPOLEX® Aerated Floors are the modern systems that use open space rather than soil to vent the slab, resulting in a highly efficient transmission of vacuum and air flow.
We deliver value engineered and cost-effective vapour intrusion design solutions for converting challenging sites such as brownfield developments into productive properties.
Radon-Mitigating Floors
We deliver value engineered and cost-effective radon mitigation design solutions for pre-emptive/passive residential home radon protection and active sub-slab depressurization systems.
Homeowners or regulators can be sure that a vacuum is present everywhere below the building and that radon concentration below the slab will be far lower than with traditional systems.
Grade-Supported Concrete Floors
CUPOLEX® offers value engineering and cost-effective structural design solutions for grade-supported concrete floors. Our unique concrete dome methodology allows the concrete to perform under compression and not in tension, while providing a void under the slab. Sub-slab voids provide moisture barriers and have venting potential.
Foundation-Supported Structural Concrete Floors
CUPOLEX® offers floor slabs that can be fully or partially suspended on foundation piles, stem walls or grade beams. Additional reinforced internal ribs are then used in the slab by introducing PONTEX®, the structural CUPOLEX® accessory, to provide a structure capable of spanning between foundations or piles.
Structural Post-Tensioned Reinforced Concrete Slab-on-Grade
CUPOLEX® post-tensioned reinforced slab foundations avoid the buildup of the potentially damaging forces from expansive soils. CUPOLEX® slabs foundations can be designed to accommodate any ground movement that is anticipated.
Raised Concrete Floors for Lightweight Fill Replacement
CUPOEX® provides value engineering and cost-effective structural design solutions for replacing expensive and time-consuming foam insulation and EPS blocks typically used for creating floating concrete slabs when weight limit is a factor on supporting structural concrete deck slabs.
CUPOLEX® concrete raised floors are designed to reduce the “dead load” on top of structural decks and eliminates the need for costly design analysis and construction methods associated with higher strength, load bearing structures.
Raised Concrete Floors for Structural Fill Replacement
We provide solutions for replacing expensive and time-consuming engineering of structural fill required to support slab-on-grades. Sites with poor soil may be subject to an expensive haul-off and/or expensive import of material. Our solution involves removal of poor quality soil to lower the site and support a raised slab-on-grade.
Concrete Floors for Refrigerated Buildings
CUPOLEX® provides engineered floor systems for freezer warehouse floors and ground heave solutions. Our engineered CUPOLEX® floors are passively or mechanically heated to prevent frost formation. This alleviates the structural concerns associated with frost heave on freezer floors and also minimizes the parasitic heat gain to the refrigerated space.
Concrete Floors for Industrial Warehouses
CUPOLEX® floors specifically for industrial applications are designed for very high industrial type distributed or concentrated racking loads and forklift loads can be accommodated. Non saw cut and super-flat floors can be designed and screed equipment can be used with the CUPOLEX® formwork.
