Proven Solutions for Civil Engineering and Construction Applications

Precast concrete box culverts provide the ideal solution to a wide range of civil engineering and construction applications.

The traditional use is for diverting water courses, but the versatility of these structures sees them increasingly used for attenuation tanks, pedestrian subways, access shafts, service tunnels, sea outfalls, road crossings and a variety of other applications where strength, durability and economy are of paramount importance.

Members of the Box Culvert Association – comprising all the leading manufacturers of box culverts in the UK – offer the capability to design and manufacture structures to meet specific application requirements and loading conditions.

The Box Culvert Association produces a standard specification which covers materials, manufacture, tolerances, external loading, design and detailing standards. The specification also provides a check list of information required from the specifier and provides for the issue of a compliance certificate. Box culverts which are to carry highway or railway loading are designed to current standards and specification as stipulated by the client.

BENEFITS

• Proven strength and performance characteristics means long service life.

• Unlike structures manufactured from alternative materials, such as steel, precast concrete culverts do not require additional treatments to prolong service life or improve performance. They do not rust and the smooth internal finish of the concrete ensures optimum flow of water.

• Precast culverts meet the current design-life requirements for buried structures. This ability to provide prolonged service life with minimum maintenance makes box culverts the most economic means of diverting watercourses and providing underground access and service shafts.

• Speed of construction and accuracy of profile. Precast concrete box culverts provide the ideal solution to a wide range of civil engineering and construction applications.

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