MC-Floor TurboCem Screed – Matching the mean machines

• Name

  Rapid-curing cement for AMG Performance Centre

• Country

  Germany, 2022

• Categories

  Screeds

• Products

  MC-Floor TurboCem

LUEG is one of the largest Mercedes dealers in Germany. Now, the company’s premises on Altendorfer Strasse in Essen have been expanded through the addition of 1,100 m², transforming the facility into an AMG Performance Centre. Offering more than just a large selection of exclusive AMG vehicles, it also provides visitors with a unique first-hand experience of the brand’s motorsport DNA through its luxuriant showroom design and the presence of AMG experts specially trained on the racetrack. For the floor of the extension, the tender specified a quick-setting screed that had to be dimensionally stable and low in residual stress in order to enable the provision of large jointless areas of covering and minimise the risk of cracking. The screed also had to allow early walk-on access and loading so that the subsequent trades could quickly complete their own tasks. A high level of surface strength was also required to allow the laying of a planned epoxy resin-based stone carpet.

MC-Floor TurboCem for a dimensionally stable and quickly loadable screed

The screed work was carried out at the beginning of 2022. Ljuljzim Murati, owner of the screed-laying firm Murati Betonbodentechnik, had recommended MC-Floor TurboCem fast-setting cement to the clients for this application after having had an in-depth consultation with Chris Schöneich, North Rhine-Westphalia Area Manager for Screed Projects at MC-Bauchemie. With this ternary rapid-curing cement, which was launched in 2020, MC-Bauchemie is able to offer to the market a one-for-all screed product. It is suitable for commercial, industrial and residential applications, will always keep its shape and yet can be quickly overworked. With its inherent low shrinkage and low stress behaviour, MC-Floor TurboCem can be used to produce screeds compliant with shrinkage class SW1 according to DIN 18560, i.e. capable of remaining dimensionally stable as setting proceeds. Specifically, an MC-Floor TurboCem screed quickly achieves high strengths up to CT-C50-F6, can be accessed by pedestrian traffic after just 6 hours and can be overworked after 24 hours. Yet the products still offers sufficiently long working and smoothing times of ≥ 45 minutes.

Simple handling, assured quality, on-schedule construction progress

The good workability and easy handling of MC-Floor TurboCem meant that the screed for this project could be installed and completed on time in February 2022, allowing the subsequent trades to continue without delay in performing the further work required for the new centre expansion. Area Manager Chris Schöneich also accompanied the screed-laying work and took samples from the site to ensure and document the high quality of the installed material for both the contractor Murati and the principle client. Thus MC was able to deliver a performance very much worthy of the AMG label.