Services

Our customer service is supplemented with the following services:

Counseling services on concrete technology
Yura s.a. – concrete division provides technical support to its clients before, during and after the productive processes.

:: Before the process


Visiting the work site before the concrete is poured, preparing mix designs according to the technical specifications of the works and suggesting the alternatives most suitable to the needs of our clients and to those of the project.

:: During the process


Our duly trained staff supervises the transportation, pouring, compacting and curing of the supplied concrete, to obtain satisfactory results.

 

:: After the process


Upon conclusion of the construction works our company carries out inspections to learn about the needs of our clients and answer any queries with respect to the concrete, durability, maintenance of structures, etc.

:: Concrete laboratory services


The concrete division has a modern laboratory to test cements and prefabricates, whereby fresh and hardened cements, concrete aggregates and additives are analyzed and tested. In addition, through the cement division of yura s.a., we have the most complete laboratory for the analysis and testing of cement in the south of the country.

The above referred services are supplemented with suitably training staff..


:: Quality control of aggregates


The main tests carried out on aggregates are:
- Physical analysis
- Grading
- Specific gravity
- Absorption
- Humidity
- Determination of smaller particles by mesh 200
- Unit weights

 

:: Quality control of fresh concrete at work site

The concrete division of yura s.a., provides its clients with quality control services of fresh concrete at the work site, at no additional cost, such as, among others:
- Sampling of fresh concrete according to standard astm c-172
- Control of the temperature of the fresh concrete according to standard astm c-1064
- Establishment of the settling or slump according to standard astm c-143
- Determination of the air content in fresh concrete using the pressure method according to standard astm c-231
- Casting and curing of fresh concrete samples at the work site according to standard astm c-31

:: Curing and compression resistance tests on hardened concrete samples

We take the samples of hardened concrete to our laboratory where the test pieces are cured in ponds and once the specified curing time has elapsed, the simple compression test is implemented following the suitable quality standards for said test. We furnish our clients with test certificates 28 days after the test pieces have been cured or
at the age required by the client.