Building a bobsleigh track for a Winter Olympics is among the most demanding jobs in sports construction: a continuous, precisely profiled concrete channel that must survive being iced, thawed and re-iced through every season, at altitude. The Cesana-San Sicario track for Turin 2006 was designed by Planungsburo Deyle and built by Orion Scarl.
Ecobeton had already protected the Olympic tracks at Calgary (1988) and Lillehammer (1994). At Cesana, Evercrete Vetrofluid was applied to the track as a curing treatment and as permanent protection against frost attack - the same product, spray-applied, doing both jobs.
Project facts
- Location: Cesana Torinese / San Sicario (TO), Italy (2004)
- Designer: Planungsburo Deyle GmbH
- Contractor: Orion Scarl (RE)
- Ecobeton solution: Curing and frost-protection treatment of the track with Evercrete Vetrofluid
What this means for UK projects
Three Olympic tracks over 18 years is about as long a field trial as any concrete treatment gets. For the mechanism behind it, see how Vetrofluid works from within.