Recently, The Launching Ceremony of Senior Jalan
Tun Abdul Razak is one of the busiest streets in Ipoh, Perak. It caters to the commuters from
Silibin, Buntong and Jelapang area to the town and vice versa. Having a premier
school and the main town bus station at the end of the road and the cargo
station at another while a railway track to the main Ipoh railway station below
the Jalan Tun Abdul Razak Bridge, it is not unusual that the transports that
travels on the road are heavy with loadings that can reach up to 60
tones.
The
bridge on the road have been there for more than a decade now, however there is
a spot on the road that have been a nuisance to motorist as the tar surface were
being wear off quickly due to the poor bonding between the tar material over the
steel plate. This wear-off spot creates a large indentation that results in hard
bumping-over to the motorist. If the motorist is a regular commuter on the road,
that spot will be particularly avoided. Though many repairs using the
conventional tar had been done by the City Council (MBI) through the few years,
it seems to be in vain as the indentation will appear in a very short
time.
Through
a C&S consultant in Ipoh, The City Council came across Dura Technology Sdn.
Bhd. on its Ultra High Performance ‘ductile’ Concrete (UHPdC) and its technology
in durability and less usage of material without compromising on quality. In
December 2009, a site casting of UHPdC by Dura Technology was being carried out
to repair the road. Though it was raining the whole day, the casting was
completed in less then 6 hours and the road was opened to public use again after
4 days from the repair compared to 1 week using the conventional method. For
that reason, the heavy traffic of the road was not significantly disrupted. Many
of the motorists are satisfied with the short timing on repair completion and
there are no reported damage recurrences of the patch.