Types of Concrete and Their Applications
Concrete comes in many forms, each tailored for specific structural and environmental needs—here’s a quick overview of four common types and their unique benefits.
Light Weight Concrete
Concrete that weigh less than normal concrete but is design to achieve similar compressive strengths and durability as normal weight concrete. This type of ready mix is often used in places where weight is an important factor, such as 2nd floor decks.
Regular Concrete
A general all purpose type concrete made of cement, coarse aggregates, fine aggregates, and water.
Pervious Concrete
A mixture of cement and aggregates with little to no sand and water. Allows 3-8 gallons of water per minute to pass through with about 15-25% voided structure per square foot. Pervious concrete is used when creating sidewalks, parking lots, driveways, and any kind of pavement applications.
High Perfomance Concrete
Concrete that is designed to exceed the performance of normal concrete in a number of different ways including strength, durability, hydration (curing), density, compaction without segregation, and ease of placement. High performance concrete is designed for instances where your project needs more strength, structure, and durability.
Optimizing Concrete with
Advanced Admixtures
Admixtures are the ingredients in concrete other than portland cement, water, and aggregate that are added to the mix immediately before or during mixing. Dillon Bros uses admixtures primarily to modify the properties of hardened concrete, to ensure the quality of concrete during mixing, transporting, placing, and curing, and to overcome certain emergencies during concrete operations. Here are some of our high quality additives.
Water Reducer
An admixture that reduce the water cement ratio to increase concrete workability and compressive strength.
Retarders
An admixture that delay the hydration of concrete (curing) without affecting its mechanical properties. Often used when unavoidable delays occur when placing concrete on the job site and pouring concrete in hot or windy weather to avoid plastic or dry shrinkage cracking.
Accelerators
An admixture that accelerate the hydration of concrete and increase the rate of early strength. Often use when placing concrete in cold weather, to remove form work faster, or urgent concrete repairs.
Air Entrainment
Air-entraining admixtures are added during mixing to introduce a network of microscopic air bubbles throughout the concrete. These tiny bubbles—usually less than 1 millimeter in diameter—act as pressure-relief chambers, allowing water to expand safely when it freezes. This helps prevent cracking, scaling, and other freeze-thaw damage.
Fiber Reinforcement
A fibrous material that are uniformly distributed and randomly oriented throughout the concrete to increase its structural integrity. They are usually used to control plastic shrinkage cracking, dry shrinkage cracking, reduce steel reinforcement requirements, improve abrasion resistance and structural strength.
Bumpers and Blocks That Last
Built for strength, stability, and long-term performance, our concrete bumpers and construction blocks are engineered to handle the toughest conditions. Whether you're outfitting a parking lot, creating secure traffic dividers, or building durable structures, our products are designed to deliver reliability and lasting value for any project.
Concrete Parking Bumpers
Our concrete parking bumpers—also known as parking barriers, wheel stops, parking chocks, curb stops, and bumper blocks—are made from superior materials, ensuring long service life and optimal stability, with common uses including:
Concrete Construction Blocks
We offer the highest quality construction blocks for any project. Whether you're building retaining walls, landscaping projects, exterior walls, security barriers, or material bins, our blocks are designed to perform. From directing traffic to supporting heavy structures, we have the right blocks to fit any job.
