In April 2017, design studio Zeller & Moye began working with Concrete Canvas® GCCM* (CC) as the material of choice for ‘stiff’, which would be exhibited at the Textilmuseum St. Gallen in Vadianstrasse, Switzerland. Designers Christoph Zeller and Ingrid Moye used a total of 440m2 of CC13TM to produce their design pieces. It took a […]
In June 2017, CC Hydro™ (CCH) GCCB* was used to provide a waterproof layer to bridge decking on the Old Elvet Bridge in Durham, UK. The Old Elvet Bridge is a Grade I listed mediaeval masonry arch bridge across the River Wear, linking the peninsula in central Durham and the Elvet area of the city. […]
In November 2017, Concrete Canvas® GCCM* (CC) was used to line an irrigation channel in Accra, Ghana. The installation was carried out as part of the Ashaiman Irrigation Scheme for the Ghana Irrigation Development Authority. The client specifically chose CC as the solution for this project in order to determine the material’s advantages over conventional […]
Geosynthetics News & Technology source, Geosynthetica, has featured our Avoca Mines case study on their news blog. The post gives a detailed account of the project’s background and execution, and gives the installation fantastic exposure. You can read their post here.
Concrete Canvas has been named as the winner of a Lloyds National Business Award! The company has won the Samsung Innovation Award. Our co-director Will Crawford attended an ceremony where he was presented with the prestigious award.
Concrete Canvas co-founders, Will Crawford and Peter Brewin, have been featured in Business News Wales as the official success stories for the Faces of a Vibrant Economy campaign run by Grant Thornton UK LLP. The campaign is part of Grant Thornton’s “commitment to shaping a vibrant economy in the UK” and showcases some of the […]
Copper mining is reported to have begun in the Avoca River valley in around 1720 and continued, with interruptions, until 1982. Among the minerals produced in the last two centuries, copper has been primarily mined along with silver and gold, although the latter was mined to a lesser extent. The Avoca river, which flows southwards […]
On 7th January 2016, the steep slope overlooking part of the Newcastle to Carlisle rail line between Corbridge and Riding Mill, on the south side of the line, suffered a significant failure, resulting in a landslide which covered the tracks in soil, debris and fallen trees, closing the line. The event occurred following a prolonged […]
In June 2017, contractor Bam Nuttall installed Concrete Canvas GCCM as part of the Great Western Electrification Projects’ improvements to drainage structures at Fosse Way, near Sherston. This followed on from the successful installation of the material on a seperate section in 2014, where CC was used to line an open drainage channel to prevent […]
The website have run a story about Milliken’s licensed use of Concrete Canvas Ltd’s product CC Hydro™ and its growing role within the water infrastructure oil gas and industrial sectors. Read the article in full by clicking here.