The predominate use of Lightweight Aggregate Concrete is in structural applications.

These include:

• bridges
• buildings (high-rise and mid-rise)
• marine facilities
• highways

Special use structures such as:

• stadiums
• hospitals
• schools
• terminals

It is especially beneficial where long free span design is required or where poor soil conditions and seismic concerns prevail.  The bottom line is that Lightweight Aggregate Concrete can be substituted for stone concrete in every application.  It can be redi-mix or precast; pumped or bucket placed.  Lightweight Aggregate Concrete saves weight, saves steel, is "pumpable" and reduces micro-cracking.

Architects, engineers, owners, design/builders – prefer and specify Solite^® and Kenlite^® structural lightweight concrete for a broad range of concrete applications: high rise building frames and elevated slabs, post tensioned floor systems, fire resistant floors, long span roof and bridge structures, bulb T and AASHTO girders, cast faux stone, thin shell construction, including the hyperbolic, parabolic roof structure, and special design effects in form and texture.

Lightweight concrete building frames and floors give designers greater flexibility.   Greater utilization of leasable square footage within a building’s footprint is possible by greater spacing between columns, greater spans between columns and thinner floor sections (increased number of floors without increased building height).
It’s a "WIN- WIN" SITUATION for a building owner:

increased leasable space,

reductions in heating and cooling costs,

realizing lower fire insurance premiums.

Some historical applications of lightweight aggregate concrete are found in familiar structures such as:

Seneca Indian Casino Niagara Falls, NY
(Solite on Steel frame)

Solite^® was specified for the
Brooklyn Bridge deck rehabilitation

Paul Brown Stadium
Cincinnati, OH

Muhammad Ali Center
Louisville, KY

These projects and the thousands of others that have followed are silent testimonials to the fact that lightweight concrete made with Solite^® and Kenlite^® expanded shale in the mix design affords the specifier a zone of comfort, knowing that the end product meets UL^® Fire Ratings while reducing dead loads and imparting high strength, has a superior freeze-thaw durability and assures that innate thermal performances are built right into the application.