Precast concrete cladding provides the designer with substantial freedom in the choice of form, texture and appearance, says The Concrete Institute MD Bryan Perrie. With regards to architects, he says ...

From a distance, today’s building innovations in cladding performance, aesthetics, and construction appear unconstrained and quite varied. Material mixing is creating newly expressive façades, and ...

For 28 Grand in Detroit, approximately 90 percent of the project was constructed using the product, which that enabled developer Bedrock to meet an aggressive construction time frame while ...

Precast facades have the potential to be made very cheaply using highvolume, standardised components, or made bespoke and shaped by unique profiles at very high cost. So it is not surprising to find ...

While delighted that Bob Barlov of Pascall + Watson recognises that precast concrete is a robust, durable cladding material (7 July, page 90), I am disappointed that he has been allowed to criticise ...

Introduced commercially only 30 years ago, use of glass reinforced concrete (GRC) quickly became established as designers realised the potential of its light weight, strength and versatility As the ...