CSFF heavy duty soldiers manufactured with 3-mm thick British steel sheets. They are used widely for walls, columns, and curved with circular structures. They are designed to provide economic and safe single or double side shutters for vertical concrete elements such as shear walls, partitions, shafts, staircases, swimming pools, silos, earth and elevated water tanks, chimneys, retaining walls and all special designs for rectangular and cylindrical structures can be easily constructed with this system.

The system performance complies with the architects and structural engineering requirements keep the cost of construction within rational extent. On the other hand, high quality steel sheets used to construct soldiers reduce the number of ties, thereby saving costs and improving visual appearances of the finished concrete.

Timber or aluminum studs can be used but generally timber studs result in the use of soldiers at closer spacing due to the reduced strength of these elements comparing with aluminium studs. The various range of lengths available add unlimited horizons to the system to overcome all formwork problems. Assembly and erection time are minimized by the use of fast fixing clamps (universal and timber waling clamps for aluminium and timber studs respectively) to connect studs with soldiers. The plywood from the face is simply nailed or screwed to the timber studs or the lumber piece inserted in the groove presented in the aluminum studs.

Tie rods have been specifically designed to match the load capacity of the soldier. The tie rod is 17 mm in diameter and uses a self cleaning coil thread to reduce the maintenance cost. The full of 60 kN permissible load can be carried at any position along the soldier, and does not decrease with higher bending moment.

Access brackets can be fitted to the soldiers at any heights to form a conventional platforms for the pouring of concrete. On higher forms platforms on another level can be provided to enable the fixing and removal of ties in complete safety. To support the forms during erection and between uses, stabilizers can be fitted. These have a wide base for safety and are easily adjustable for angle. For higher pours or when extra safety is required, inclined struts can be used as push-pull props.

When the work requires to pour large walls or column concrete elements, large pre-cast structural units or walls of existing building during refurbishment, heavy- duty inclined soldier systems may be required to support the forms in order to maintain strength and stability.

The high resistance provided by this system ensures that the number of units required will be kept at the minimum level. Therefore considerable savings are obtained in the cost of material and the cost of providing suitable ground for anchors.

The supplementary accessories enable system elements to be braced together creating a rigid structure capable to resist up to 80 kN (S.W.L). Adjusting facilities are another advantage which enables the system to accommodate the change in geometry. The adjustment can be achieved easily by rotating the soldier body.