Nearly a century after Duff Abrams published “Water-Cement Ratio as the Basis of Concrete Quality,” a radar-activating probe and digital handheld device premiered at World of Concrete 2026 to instill his premise in future generations of cement, concrete and construction stakeholders.
Vemaventuri GmbH brings a new dimension to measuring and recording fresh concrete mixes’ w/c ratios with SONO Hub. The probe and companion device leverage TRIME Radar technology, using advanced propagation time measurement to deliver lab-quality volumetric water content readings with outstanding accuracy. SONO Hub empowers testing labs, concrete producers and contractors to efficiently manage water in fresh concrete orders. It features an on-site data hub, enabling calculation of the w/c ratio directly on the device, local data storage, and effortless forwarding of results to the cloud application for further analysis and documentation.
SONO Hub development and programming embrace principles D.A. Abrams affirmed during his 1920s tenure as director of the Portland Cement Association Research Laboratory, Chicago, and director of Research, International Cement Corp., New York. His seminal “Water-Cement Ratio” paper appeared in the American Concrete Institute’s ACI Journal Proceedings, February 1927.
Vemaventuri is a subsidiary of concrete formwork giant Peri SE, Germany. Elkridge, Md.-based Peri Formwork Systems Inc. will support the SONO Hub in North America.
Vemaventuri, www.vemaventuri.io
