Exclusive PENETRON agent · Western Region, Saudi ArabiaISO 14001:2015ISO 45001:2018
Zawaya Al-Emaar GCC delivers general contracting and structural construction with specialist crystalline concrete waterproofing — specified, supplied, applied and verified by one team, from the first pour to a documented handover.
01 — What we do
Exclusive PENETRON agent · Western Region
The complete crystalline system — specified, supplied, applied and verified by one team. Admixtures at batching, coatings and repair of existing structures, joints, pile heads and penetrations.
High-rise structural concrete
Raft foundations and substructures, cores, shear walls, columns and floor slabs — delivered on landmarks such as Lamar Towers, Al-Safwa Towers and the Kempinski Hotel.
Design to handover
Complete building packages under our own licence — structure, MEP and finishing — handed over ready for use, with watertightness built into the structure from day one.
02 — Why concrete fails
Concrete is strong in compression and weak in tension, so it relies on steel reinforcement. Through cracks, voids and capillaries, water carries corrosive chemicals to that steel — and four distinct mechanisms begin to dismantle the structure from the inside.
Chlorides reach the reinforcement and rust it. The steel expands, the cover spalls, and the damage spreads invisibly along the bar network.
Sulfates and acids in groundwater dissolve the cement matrix, softening the concrete and opening new paths for water.
Alkalis react with reactive silica in the aggregate to form a gel. It takes up water, swells, and cracks the concrete from within.
Freezing water occupies 9% more volume, forcing microcracks open. The cycle repeats and the surface progressively breaks down.
The consequence
Stop the water and you stop all four mechanisms at once. That is the whole of what we do.
03 — Service life
Projected service life before onset of corrosion, in years. Determined according to Fick’s Law using ACI methodology.
Every additional decade is money the owner does not spend on repair, injection, or shutting a facility down.
04 — The system
Rather than installing a membrane that can tear or debond, our solutions become an integral part of the concrete matrix.
Crystalline admixture added at the batch plant, dosed at 0.8–1% of cementitious weight. Makes the full concrete section permanently waterproof from any direction.
Liquid crystalline admixture dispensed automatically at the batch plant, for high-volume, consistency-critical pours.
Soluble-bag crystalline admixture for addition at the truck mixer where plant dosing is not practical, applied using the approved product method.
Brush- or spray-applied crystalline slurry for waterproofing and chemical protection of existing concrete, above and below grade.
Crystalline structural repair mortar to EN 1504 Class R4 (45 MPa) for cracks, form-tie holes, honeycombing and non-moving joints.
Swellable waterstop strip for construction joints, pile heads and service penetrations. Supported by PENEPLUG and PENETRON INJECT for active leaks.
05 — How we work
Nothing is left to the pour.
Drawings, soil and groundwater conditions, exposure class and design intent — what the structure will actually face.
The right system and dosage, method statements, and confirmed compatibility with your mix and admixture regime.
Ready-mix supplier, main contractor and consultant aligned on dosing, timing and sequencing before the first pour.
Our technical team supervises batching and application on site, verifying dosage and workmanship at every stage.
Dosage confirmed through tracer verification where applicable, with quality records documented throughout.
The scope is handed over with a complete technical documentation package.
06 — Featured projects
A series of school campuses. ADMIX for raft foundations, retaining walls, tanks and pools.
Five-star, twelve floors. ADMIX for rafts, walls and tanks; 319 pile heads treated with coating and PENEBAR SW-45.
PENETRON crystalline waterproofing admixture approved for the plant’s concrete works.
07 — Approvals & certification
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48 PENETRON system approvals from consultants and clients across KSA, UAE, Qatar and Kuwait.
The only crystalline system approved by the National Water Company (NWC).
Approved by consultants including
08 — General contracting
Beyond waterproofing, Zawaya Al-Emaar GCC delivers complete construction packages — from foundations and structural concrete frames to finished, handed-over buildings. Our teams have delivered high-rise towers, hotels, airport infrastructure, power and industrial facilities across the Kingdom, backed by our own heavy-equipment fleet.
Al-Safwa Towers
Residential & commercial · Jeddah
A compound of six towers — three of 20 floors and three of 13 — with a facility building and a mosque. Structural concrete works for substructure and superstructure.
Let’s work together
We come back with a specification, a dosage and a method statement — not a price list.
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