SIKA SCREEDS DUBAÏ 2019

WHAT IS A SCREED ?

A screed is a mortar laid on the floor with a thickness between 3 and 10 cm

To :

 Level the floor

 Coat different ducts/tubes (electricity, heating tubes…)
 be a support for final coating (tiles, parquet floor, lino, carpet…)

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 Sika Viscochape Concept

SELF LEVELING TECHNOLOGY

A screed is a mortar laid on the floor with a thickness of 3 to 10 cm

It aims to :
 Level the floor
 Encapsulate underfloor heating Systems
 Be the support for final floor covering (tiles, wooden floor, carpet, etc)

A screed can be Traditional or Self leveling

target flow is 230 to 260mm

SIKA VISCOCHAPE ADVANTAGES
• 10 times faster than traditional solution : 1000m² a day
• Short the building time
• Increase productivity
• Large floor area without joints (up to 80m²)

• Reduce the noise on construction site (urban area)

• Less labour intensive : installation & production time ; health and safety risks

• Compatible with all floor coverings and adhesives (cement based)

• Can be foot trafficked after 24 hours

On heating floors
• No damaging of the pipes during the casting.
• Encapsulation of the heating pipes : no air voids = efficiency
• Substantially improves the performance of the under floor heating
TYPE OF SCREED APPLICATION
When the screed is laid directlty on the support, this is a
BONDED SCREED

When the screed is applied on a damp proof membrane, this is

an UNBONDED SCREED

When the screed is laid on insulation (especially with

underfloor heating systems), this is a FLOATING SCREED

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WHY A SELF LEVELLING SCREED ?
Advantages for

RMC :
 Traditional concrete price is very low due to price war, RMC has difficulties to earn money
with is it
 Self Levelling Screeds is used by RMC to
1/ Differentiate
2/ Earn more money because it brings more comfort to appliers
3/ Develop loyalty of appliers

Appliers :
 Most of them have lots of jobsites in progress and have no time to do all (lack of
workforce, too much time per job site with dry system)
 Yield when applying a screed for a 100 m² jobsite (5 m3):
 Dry Screed : 2 people = 6 – 8 hours
 Self Leveling Screed : 2-3 people team = 1- 2 hours
 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xislo5VFnNA

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APPLICATIONS

Heating
floor
Floating
screed (just
insulation)

Unbonded screed

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APPLICATIONS

Heating
floor
Floating
screed (just
insulation)

Unbonded screed

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APPLICATIONS

Heating
floor
Floating
screed (just
insulation)

Unbonded screed

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APPLICATIONS

Heating
floor
Floating
screed (just
insulation)

Unbonded screed

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APPLICATIONS

High strengths required (P4s)

Very fast set required

High risk of claims

Specific products

No screed delivered by RMC plant

in France

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SIKA SCREEDS CONCEPT
RMC plant Sika
Cement (cem I & II) Sika Admixtures
Filler (limestone) Sika Fibers
Sand (0/2 0/4)

• Delivery on site of a “ready to use” solution

• Additionnal business for RMC player
• Value added solution for RMC player and the applicator
• Quality of an industrial production
• Advantages of the self leveling technology

• CE marked in accordance with EN 13813-1 Screed materials and floor screeds

• High range of applications => profitability and volumes

Houses Housing Commercial, Offices & Hotels

 Focus on Sika
PRODUCTS PORTFOLIOS
 Self leveling mortar : 3 solutions
Cement based Calcium Sulfate Cement based
based

Sika Viscochape Sika Syntichape Sika Levelchape HCS

• Self-leveling (during • Self-leveling (during • Self-leveling (during
2h30) 3h) 2h30)
• Strength C20F4 • Strength C20F4 • Strength C16F3
• Shrinkage < 600 • Shrinkage < 200 • Shrinkage < 800
µm/m µm/m µm/m
• Contraction joint • Contraction joint • Contraction joint
every 80 m² every 1000 m² every 60 m²
• Heating floor • Large surfaces • Forbidden on
(housing market) (hospital, school, heating floor
buildings…) (houses, buildings…)

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 Up to 5 ranges of products involved

Superplasticizer : Superplasticizer : Superplasticizer :

Sika Viscocrete Range Sika Viscocrete Range Sika Viscocrete Range
Air Entrainer : Air Entrainer :
Sika AER Binder : Sika AER
Calcium Sulfate
Retarder Retarder
Sika Plastiretard ou Sika Sika Plastiretard ou Sika
Retarder Retarder
Shrinking reducing admx Shrinking reducing admx
Sika Control 50 Sika Control 50
PP micro Fibers PP micro Fibers
Sika Crackstop 6 mm Sika Crackstop 6 mm

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 Business model
SIKA FRANCE KEY FIGURES

Started SLC in 2003

Sika SyntiChape Anhydrite

Sika ViscoChape Cement base C20F4
Sika LevelChape Cement base C16F3
125 accredited RMC Plants
357 Certified Applicator.
60 laboratory analysis per year
A dedicated website :
https://www.chapesika.fr/
SIKA SELF LEVELLING CONCEPT

Concept under CSTB TECHNICAL

AGREEMENT

Self-levelling screed ready to use

delivered by truck from RMC plant Strength :
Strength :
C16F3
C20F4
No heating
Mix design elaborated by Sika for his floors
RMC customer with his own materials
(cement / sand / addition)
Powered by Sika Admixtures

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MATERIALS SELECTION GUIDE CEMENT
Cement could be :

CEM I 52,5 or 42,5 (N ou R)

CEM II/A or CEM II/B 42,5 or 52,5 (N or R)

Don’t use CEM III or CEM V

 Setting time is quite long (as the screed must be retarded for 3 hours of
workability)
 Risk of cracking is bigger (Cure has to be reinforced)

Good knowledge of cement allows to choose the best superplasticizer

(%Na2Oeq)

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MATERIALS SELECTION GUIDE ADDITION
Additions could be :

Calcareous filler (type A or B)

Siliceous filler (if granulometry is OK)

Don’t use other type of additions (slag / fly ash or metakaolin) because:
 Air entrainment is not regular with fly ash
 Too much strength because of pozzonalic effect
 Risk of cracking increases

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MATERIALS SELECTION GUIDE SAND
Sand granulometry should be between 0/2 to 0/4 mm

Important parameters :

• Sand cleanness
• Absorption
• Density (mix design / m3)
• Amount of fines (take the minimum value to formulate)
• Fine modulus (allow to determine the amount of paste)
• Compactness

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MIX DESIGN
SAND WITH FINES < 2% ET DENSITY = 2600 KG/M3
AIR = 8%

MIX DESIGN
CEM I 52,5 CEM II 42,5
PARAMETERS Superplasticizer
Tempo range
CEMENT 280 kg/m3 300 kg/m3
Retarder

Sika AER range

FILLER 370 kg/m3 350 kg/m3
Sika Control 50
1% of fines content

SAND 1200 kg/m3 1200 kg/m3 Sika Crackstop

300 g/m3

WATER
240 kg/m3 240 kg/m3
eff
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TECHNICAL CHARACTERISTICS
At fresh state

Sika Viscochape
Aspect Grey cement
pH 12,5 ± 0,5
Density 2200 ± 200 kg/m3
flow
Sika 20 à 26 cm
ViscoChape
cone
Workability 2h30
Début < 20 h
Setting time
Fin < 24 h
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ADVANTAGES SELF-LEVELLING VS. TRADITIONAL SCREEDS
 Faster placements
 Less problems (from production to application)
 Homogeneous mix
 Pumpability and flowability
 Better adhesion (i.e. flooring heating system)
 Controlled quality
 Excellent compressive and flexural strength

Traditional screed Self levelling screed

BENEFITS OF SELF-LEVELLING SCREEDS

Reducing Harsh working conditions

Applicators is on his feet to laid the screed/ Easy to pump /
Fast pouring

Quickness
Ready to use/ Delivered by truck / 2 hours for 150 m²
against 8 hours pour traditional screed

Quality
Better flatness / Better coating of heating floor systems /
Traceability

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WHY this business
is important for
RMC

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SELF-LEVELLING SCREED
Self-levelling screed can be produced by different ways :

On the job On the job By a truck By RMC

site with site using mixer plant and
premix mobile silos directly on delivered to
mortar the job site the job site
in concrete
truck

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WHY A SELF LEVELLING SCREED ?
 In 90’s, only dry screed systems were available in the Europeen market

 Regulation was only existing for dry system :

Referring to French law, only dry screed system are allowed

2020 Nederlands regulation want to ban the dry screed

 Disadvantages of dry system :

 Application time (placing, levelling,…) is too long
 Doing a jobsite requires more labour force
 Application is hard (working conditions are painful)
 Performance may not be enough (heating floor,…)
WHY A SELF LEVELLING SCREED ?
Lack of labour force in France :
 Workforce avoid working in construction markets (bad image, hard working
conditions,…) so the lack of labour force is very high in construction market
 Workforce cost is expensive

Technology progress
New admixture technology allowed new concrete properties (self levelling, better
life slump…)
Used to create Self Levelling Screeds :
 Offering them comfort, easiness and speed, better working conditions, people
are in a better shape after 40 years working in jobsites
 More speed, less workforce for jobsite needed

French regulation authorised new screed system through technical agreement

COMING INNOVATIONS
WHAT ARE THE NEEDS FOR OUR CUSTOMERS ?

To pump the screed as fast as possible !

Time is money…

High surface without joints and no cracks !

Short time to prepare the job site before and after
concreting

Quick drying !
Coating application as fast as possible after
concreting

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IDEA
Cement v.s Calcium sulfate : Advantages/disadvantages

Cement-based concepts

Quick drying (tiles High shrinkage (risk of

after 14 days) cracking)
Water resistant Small surfaces without
contraction joints

IDEA : To combine the

advantages of both
Calcium sulfate-based concepts solutions
High surfaces without Long time of drying
contraction joints (tiles after more than
Low shrinkage 1 month)
High fluidity (low Water sensibility
viscosity) – easy to
pump

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TECHNICAL SPECIFICATIONS FOR THE NEW SCREED CONCEPT
Here are listed our technical specifications for the development of a new self-levelling screed concept :

- Self levelling (slump between 22 and 28 cm on

hagerman cone)
- Low viscosity (Marsh cone < 8s) / Easy to pump
- Slump keeping during 3h00 for transportation on the
job site

- Setting time that allows to walk on the screed the day

after casting (> 1 Mpa at 1 day)
- Compressive strength > 20 Mpa and flexural strength >
4 Mpa at 28 days (EN 13813)

- Drying shrinkage < 300 µm/m (at 20°C and 50%HR)

- No cracks
- Time of drying similar to a cement-based screed (tiles
after 14 days)

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SIKACONTROL®-700 EASYGRIP
SURVEY : Define Applyers’ needs

Need 1 :
• Bigger surfaces without contraction joints (at least 80sqm on heating floors and
100 sqm without heating floors)

Need 2 :
• Working without curing agent

Need 3 :
• Working without sanding surface skin

NEW SIKA VISCOCHAPE CONCEPT

 SIKA EASYGRIP
Improves surface aspect at hardened state
Allows to work without curing agent (when screed is layed into a new building)

Without Viscofinish
Surface skin formation
« smooth surface »

Air tightness due to new thermal standard in France

With Viscofinish (RT2012)
No laitance
« rough surface »
Less cure
WHAT ARE THE NEEDS FOR OUR CUSTOMERS ?

To pump the screed as fast as possible !

Time is money…

High surface without joints and no cracks !

Short time to prepare the job site before and after
concreting

Quick drying !
Coating application as fast as possible after
concreting

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SIKA CONTROL 50
Shrinkage Reducing Agent for Self-levelling Screed and Concrete
SHRINKAGE
DIFFERENT KIND OF SHRINKAGE
Evolution of shrinkage for a cementitious material

T °C T °C

Cement + Water Hydrated cement Hydrated cement

+ Porosity + Porosity decreases

Chemical Plastic Drying

Time Shrinkage Shrinkage Shrinkage
(water evaporation) - External (water evaporation)
- Internal (autogenous
DIFFERENT KIND OF SHRINKAGE

deformation
Critical step :

Stress
Deformability Tensile strength Deformability decreases
+
Low tensile strength
=
Risk of cracking !

Fresh material Early age Hardened material

Setting 24 h 2-3 days time

time
SHRINKAGE : INFLUENCE OF DIFFERENT PARAMETERS

1- Influence of the paste volume 2- Influence of the W/C ratio

1200

1100

)
RE TR A IT (1 0 -6
1000

900

800

0.50
0.45
800 0.40

/C
700

E
600 0.35

T
DOS

R
AGE 500

O
0.30

P
EN 400

P
C IM

A
ENT 300

R
(k g / 3 0.25
m )

 Drying shrinkage increases with the paste volume

 Drying shrinkage increases with the W/C ratio
 Problematic of drying shrinkage is very important for self-levelling screed because
this kind of material has both high paste volume and W/C ratio
SIKA CONTROL 50
SIKA CONTROL 50
 Chemicals
 Shrinkage reducing agent
 Hydroxyle component without chlorides

 Performances
 Shrinkage is decreased from 25 to 35% at 20°C et 50% RH

 Concrete
 All type of concrete (from dry concrete to SCC)
 High performance for cementitious materials with high W/C ratio

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SIKA CONTROL 50
 Product

 Decrease the risk of cracking

 Decrease the capillary tension responsible for drying and autogenous

shrinkage

 Improve concrete durability

 Improve workability

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SIKA CONTROL 50
 Application

 High performance concrete

 Slab
 Low shrinkage concrete
 SCC
 Screeds and Self levelling screeds
 Grouts
 Tunnelling
SIKAFIBRE FORCE CHAPES 30 P

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TquMqb5cwfM
MACRO-FIBERS IN SCREED
Macro-fibers for insulation SC2 / P4 / Heating floors

• Length 38 mm • Length 30 mm
• Dosage 3 • Dosage 2
kg/m3 kg/m3
• Puck
SIKAFIBRE SIKAFIBRE
FORCE VISCO FORCE CHAPE
CHAPE 30P

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CONTEXTE ACTUEL DE LA FIBRE MACRO-
SYNTHÉTIQUE POUR CHAPES FLUIDES

Sikafibre Force
Viscochape dosée à 3
kg/m3

Difficulté à passer les grilles

classiques des pompes à chape.

La chape présente un aspect

très visqueux et est plus difficile
à mettre en place
DOSAGE & IMPLEMANTATION

The dosage of the fiber is 2 kg / m3 for Sika

Viscochape and Sika Levelchape HCS

Implementation :
Integrate SikaFibre Force Clevis 30-P directly
into the mixer at the same time as the sand.
Dry mix (sand, cement, filler and fibers) for at
least 15 seconds before mixing water.
The recommended minimum mixing time is 90
seconds
Once on site, apply the fiber screed to the
conventional screed pump
CONDITIONNEMENT ET TARIF

Pulpable doses of 1 kg
Cartons of 15 doses
Pallet of 12 boxes (180 kg)
Wednesday 6TH OF NOVEMBER

Sel levelling screed Claude Le fur

BREAK
11.00AM / 12.30AM wet precast Kristof
LUNCH
1.00PM 2.30PM Fibers TREVOR
BREAK
3.00AM / 5.00 PM concrete essentials Kristof

Certification / Questions
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