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Alton Towers

What is the dung heap?

The dung heap is part of a new interactive children’s adventure maze attraction being
built for this season at Alton Towers.

This section of the attraction will house the entrance to the attraction and has been con-
structed to resemble animal droppings. The main attraction of the project is an interac-
tive top projected experience.

Inside the dung heap there will be interactive
digitally projection of leaves on to the floor which
when the children kick their way through the
leaves the hidden bugs that now appear, will,
when they are approached scatter by running
away up the walls. All this specialist high spec
technology needed to be protected against the
English weather therefore waterproofing was an
essential part of the specification.

The design of the new attraction by the tussaud's studios resulted in there being no
straight lines or surfaces to apply any traditional method of waterproofing. The structure
is based on a steel frame erected to form the basic shape and then covered with ex-
pamet building products' metal hy-rib lathe. The expanded metal was then sprayed in-
side and out to a thickness of around 100 mm with Natural Cement Distribution’s SHOT-
CRETE 513.

The layer of natural cement based SHOT-
CRETE 513 is waterproof without the need of ad-
ditives or additional coatings therefore allowing
the dung heap its unique form. The application of
the metal lathe & spraying of the SHOTCRETE was
carried out by Mr. John Aveling Chairman of the
sprayed concrete association. A permanent pene-
trating concrete surface colouring solution called
Hatcrete Tekstain supplied by Roy Hatfield Ltd -
was applied to the surface of the finished spayed
concrete to ensure that the finished structure re-