EcoFix achieves time savings

Contractor: Jett4 Construction Pvtl. Ltd., Andheri/Mumbai, India

A ten-floor building with 4.5 m storey heights under construction just outside the Indian megacity of Mumbai is destined to serve as the computer centre for NTT Global Data Centers, a telecommunications company. It is precisely for jobs like this that contractor Jett4 Construction purchased the new, cost-effective EcoFix wall formwork system.

Ten-storey building in Mumbai grew rapidly and according to plan

Jett4 Construction specialises in growing tall buildings with fast construction progress. EcoFix’s versatility allows its use, on this project, for casting columns, lift and stairwell cores as well as shear walls. Its merits quite generally offer major benefits on residential, infrastructure and civil engineering projects. Jett4 Construction had already had previous experience with MEVA solutions in other projects. For the data centre building, a skilled team of engineers around Construction Head Raghavendran Rao relied on the new hand-set EcoFix formwork.

The works on site have made rapid progress and gone according to plan, with the ten storeys already completed. Thanks to the robust formwork – with a permissible fresh concrete pressure absorption of 60kN/m² – and its effortless assembly, the building has rapidly grown skywards. For the 4.5 m storeys, 3 m were filled in one hour and after a few minutes break another 1.5 m in 20 min. It is also possible to form significantly higher walls, e.g. 9 m, with appropriate bracing. The crane-independent steel system has a wide range of panel sizes, all designed as cost-effective column panels. EcoFix thus solves the problem of dealing with a variety of column and wall dimensions across projects. It is lightweight and easy to handle and offers both birch plywood and alkus all-plastic facing options to deliver a consistently superior concrete finish.

Simply versatile and easy handling

Some 740 m² of panels were delivered to the site by MEVA India. With an average weight of 36 kg/m², the universal formwork guarantees efficient deployment with a minimum of accessories. Its users profit from unbeatable flexibility and cost savings. The universal panels are adjustable with 5 cm increments, can be mixed and matched to construct everything from core walls, shear walls and retaining walls to columns, with a minimal number of components needed, for unmatched flexibility and cost savings. The hand-set formwork allows quick construction where no crane can be used but panels can be connected, locked and transported by crane easily and quickly, as and when required.

Saving time, energy, and money

With closed hollow steel profiles and a powder-coated finish, the durable formwork reduces concrete adhesion and is easy to clean. It is structurally robust, durable, and torsion-proof. The EcoFix internal corner clamp eliminates the need for separate inner corner units, thus cutting the on-site inventory requirement, assembly times and costs. Multi-purpose panels with heights of 300 and 150 cm, and widths of 75, 55, 45 and 25 cm are available for trouble-free corner solutions for any wall thickness. EcoFix has a unique connector that holds the alignment rail in a horizontal position to facilitate the fixing and removing process.

The system is also equipped with multiple options for core wall construction, including end panel connections. T and L junctions can be created with minimum accessories. The MEVA assembly lock provides a structurally continuous connection with only a few hammer blows. EcoFix is equipped for any challenge thanks to its compatibility with AluFox and EcoAs.