Early Strength Concrete
Accelerate your project timelines with our early-strength concrete. Designed with an innovative quick-drying formula, Heidelberg Materials' FastTrack early-strength concrete enables rapid formwork removal thanks to its fast-setting properties, significantly enhancing productivity. Available from all our static and mobile production plants, this ready-mixed concrete is the perfect solution for fast-paced construction projects, ensuring reliability in demanding environments with tight deadlines.
Our early-strength concrete is ideal for applications requiring a quick turnaround. The FastTrack range's rapid setting times boost efficiency, making it well-suited for projects such as thinner sections, carriageway replacements, airport hard standings, warehouses, and precast structures. FastTrack solutions are designed to meet individual contracts' specific engineering requirements - ideal for infrastructure projects like road and rail renovations.
Contact us today to see how FastTrack Early Strength concrete could benefit your construction.
Why Choose Our Early Strength Concrete?
Quality-Assured Concrete 
Thoroughly tested to ensure exceptional quality.
Bespoke Concrete Products
Select your ideal additives, admixtures, cement and aggregates.
Dedicated Sales Support
Integrated sales management for seamless ordering and delivery.
National Delivery Fleet
1,200 vehicles, 4 locomotives, 140 rail freight wagons.
What Applications Benefit from Early Strength Concrete?
Early-strength concrete can support a wide range of applications:
- In buildings: columns, walls, beams, slabs, panels
- In civil engineering: high walls, tunnels, roads, airport hard standings, rail possession
- In precast facilities: beams, panels, specific elements
- Critical construction: accelerate critical sections of the construction process
- Delay reduction: regain time if the construction process has been previously delayed
- Early trafficking: Ideal for areas where early trafficking is a critical construction issue such as yards, car parks, access roads and floor areas
- Water control structures: where long term diversion of water is impractical
What Are The Benefits of Early Strength Concrete?
Choose early-strength concrete to give your project the following benefits:
- Reduces production time and increases productivity
- Cost savings through reduced labour and cost for rental construction equipment
- Ensures production deadlines can be met with confidence
- Reduces the requirement for external heating
- Achieves high early strength and high ultimate strength giving a very durable concrete
Benefits subject to good concreting practice (placement, finishing and curing).
Bespoke Early Strength Concrete
Our early-strength concrete range can be designed for various levels of compressive strength. This enables the concrete to take vast amounts of different loads, from low compressive strength when strength properties are not integral, to very high compressive strength when a high level of strength is imperative to the project's success.
- Complies with BS EN 206-1 and BS 8500-2
- Available in a range of compressive strength classes
- Can be designed to meet a wide range of exposure classes
- Suitable for pumping
Why Trust Heidelberg Materials?
When time is of the essence, you can trust us to deliver high-performance early-strength concrete that keeps your project on track. For over 150 years we’ve produced innovative concrete solutions that combine reliability, durability, and speed without compromising on quality.
Our early-strength concrete is designed for rapid setting and hardening, allowing for faster construction schedules, reduced downtime, and quicker access to the next stage of your project. Whether you’re working on infrastructure, commercial developments, or residential builds, our concrete provides the strength and performance you need to meet tight deadlines and demanding conditions.
Backed by ISO 9001, 14001, and 45001 standards, we uphold the highest levels of quality, sustainability, and safety in every mix. We have ambitious 2030 sustainability goals and a commitment to achieving net zero by 2050. With a nationwide delivery network, robust testing and dedicated technical support teams, we work closely with you to ensure your needs are met efficiently and effectively.
Choose Heidelberg Materials for early-strength concrete that delivers results you can depend on.
Case studies
One St Peter's Square, Manchester
The use of our concrete admixtures has played a key role in the construction of the 65-metre-high central concrete lift shaft at One St Peter’s Square, a 270,000-square-foot BREEAM Excellent (sustainability standard) building.
Where Do You Deliver Early Strength Concrete?
Our network of 178 static and mobile production plants supports projects across the country.
Our Accreditations
Heidelberg Materials is a member of the Quality Scheme for Ready-mixed Concrete (QSRMC) and all our products carry this certification.
Early Strength Concrete FAQs
Learn more about early-strength concrete below. Need more information? View our ready-mixed concrete FAQs.
- What is Early Strength Concrete?
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Early-strength concrete is specially formulated to set faster than traditional concrete, speeding up construction schedules. It provides the same durability and performance as standard concrete but reaches critical strength much sooner.
- How Long Does Early Strength Concrete Take to Cure?
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The exact time depends on the specific mix and environmental conditions, but early-strength concrete can typically reach sufficient load-bearing strength within 24 hours or less, letting your team move to the next phase of construction faster.
