BUILT FOR SPEED
Getting duct banks started faster – and finishing sooner – saves time and allows project teams to commence above-ground construction faster. Here’s how RED-E-DUCT revolutionizes the duct bank installation process, requiring less labor and time, reducing overall costs, and putting construction ahead of schedule.
Less Time In The Trench
Consider the differences between traditional cast in place duct bank to RED-E-DUCT
- Availability of craft labor
- Time required to place and assemble conduits
- Form work
- Redi-mix delivery
- Quality of Concrete
- Total time, from setting to backfilled
Cast-in-place
RED-E-DUCT
NO FORMS REQUIRED
When the job requires the use of a trench box, RED-E-DUCT installs quickly and easily with fewer workers and less time in the ditch. Excavate the trench, set the trench box, install RED-E-DUCT, backfill and repeat. Over one hundred and fifty feet of conduit in full concrete encasement installed in less than two minutes. Get in and out of critical work areas faster than ever before.
Minimal Concrete Work
In straight RED-E-DUCT runs, there is no need for concrete formwork, pouring, curing, or testing. Where a change to vertical direction is required, the use of RED-E-DUCT stub-ups reduces the complexity of concrete and steel formwork.
Immediate Backfill
No need to wait!
With RED-E-DUCT, traffic disruptions can be restored in record time. Workers can install and backfill RED-E-DUCT in critical locations in as little as eight hours.
Fewer Weather Delays
Cold, inclement weather conditions are not a problem when the RED-E-DUCT system is used. There is no need to wait for warmer or drier conditions to ensure that concrete can be properly placed and cured. If work crews can safely operate in sub-freezing or wet weather, RED-E-DUCT is ready to go.
With RED-E-DUCT, significant rain events will not require tear out and re-installation of partially constructed duct banks.
Unlike traditionally installed cast in place duct banks there is no cause for concern if a rain event fills the open trench with runoff water.
RED-E-DUCT unaffected by flooded trench
Traditionally installed, cast in place conduits
Overcome Challenging Terrain
Conduit installation and concrete encasement in one simple step. RED-E-DUCT installs quickly and with no requirement to place concrete in multiple lifts. Where difficult terrain complicates the work, RED-E-DUCT becomes a single step installation process that gets the job done ahead of schedule.
