Octavius cuts concrete formwork strike time by 5 days

Civil contractor Octavius is making big savings in concrete formwork strike times using temperature probes to measure in-situ concrete curing.
On test projects for HS2, monitoring the concrete core was achieved by casting sacrificial thermocouple wires into the concrete.
These were attached to transmitters secured on the formwork outside of the concrete which linked to an online portal, giving real-time data on the internal temperature and curing rate.Initially, data from the monitors was compar