Civil Engineering and Construction Material Applications

Macka's Sand and Soil can provide a sustainable and consistent supply of sand to small and large projects and we can customise our sand products to meet client and project specifications and requirements.

At Macka's we produce an extensive range of high quality construction sands from our deposits that service the construction, horticultural and agricultural industries.

The application table below provides links to the appropriate product data for each application.

Application

Macka's Sand Product

Details / Downloads

Description

Concrete Sand

Washed Sand and

Screened Sand

Concrete Sand

Premixed concrete fine aggregate, concrete sand, mortar, and grout, packaged products where colour control is critical or decorative aesthetics are required.

Asphalt Sand

Screened Sand

Asphalt Sand

Constituent for bulk asphalt, patch mix and other bituminous applications

Sewer Pipe Sands

 

Sewer Pipe Sands

 Sand for pipe embedment

Stormwater Pipe Sands

Pipe Bedding (PB)

Haunch (HS)

Side & Overlay (SOS)

 

Stormwater Pipe Sands

Used to bed plumbing pipes, fill around pipes and under slabs and pavers

Filtration Sand

Filtration

Filter Sand

Pool filtration, water purification

Masonry Sand

Screened Sand

Masonry Sand

For the manufacture of blocks and pavers

Electrical trench Sand

Construction

Electrical trench Sand

 For protection of buried electrical cabling with excellent electrical and thermal resistivity

Gas Application Sand

Construction

Gas Application Sand

 

Road Construction Sand

Construction layers

Road Construction Sand

 

 

 

Bio-Retention Systems

 

Filter Sand

 

Filter Sand

 

Residential, commercial and industrial developments, specialised stormwater and drainage projects

Transition Sand Layer

As per request

Drainage Sand Layer

As per request

General Filter Sand

Filter Sand

General Filter Sand

Pool filtration, water purification

 

Turf & Topping

Turf Underlay & Top Dressing Sand

 Turf Underlay 70:30

Turf Underlay 80:20

Top dressing greens, golf course construction, sand based sports fields, landscape parklands

Wisconsin Mound Construction

 

Wisconsin Sand

Wisconsin Mound 

For the construction of Wisconsin Mounds.

 

  

Please Note: The information provided in this product guide should be used as a guide only. For further details or for design and application support, please contact us.