Within this group of concretes we include all concretes in which the visual aspect is the main characteristic:

• Deactivated concrete: prepared for different degrees of attack of the deactivating agent that give it different textures and visual appearance, and available with different sizes of aggregates, as well as with aggregates of different nature (limestone or siliceous).
• Coloured concrete: with a full range of colours for both grey and white cement.
• Architectural concrete: specially designed to enhance the surface textures that you want to give to the concrete.

Drainage or porous concrete is characterised by its granular structure composed of tiny hollows that form channels that give it a great capacity to drain or evacuate water, preventing the formation of puddles or ice on the surface of the pavement.

Potential applications:

• Sports courts.
• Car parks.
• Pedestrian areas and garden paths.
• Decorative paving.
• Drainage paving to evacuate rainwater.
• Cycle and pedestrian paths.
• Swimming pool areas.
• As a base for artificial turf.

These are concretes with a compressive strength between 50 N/mm2 and 1000 N/mm2 especially suitable for special structures requiring high initial and final strengths.

High strength class cements, high quality aggregates and additives with a high fluidisation rate give this concrete a high strength and durability at the same time.

Concrete designed based on high-density aggregates and carefully dosed cement, water and additives that give it a high density.

It is a concrete used in shielding and radiation resistance, which makes it ideal in hospitals for their radiation chambers, as well as in nuclear power plants, both active and inactive.

Self-compacting concrete is a type of concrete that compacts under its own weight by the action of gravity without the need for external energy, due to the properties given to it by the design of its dosage and the use of superplasticising additives, flowing between the formworks thanks to its viscosity.

Concrete of high consistency, which, without exudation of grout and avoiding the blocking of the coarse aggregate in the reinforcement, flows under the action of its own weight, completely filling the formwork without the need for external help from vibrators.

The materials that make up its composition are the same materials used for the production of conventionally compacted concretes. Self-compacting concretes are characterised by a lower content of coarse aggregate, a higher content of mineral fines and, in general, a smaller maximum aggregate size.