PRODUCTS
Architectural precast concrete units can be provided in almost any shape and size, colour and texture to fulfil each new building’s aesthetic and performance requirements. They can be designed to suit both non-structural and structural applications and produced in an almost limitless choice of finishes and facings.
Architectural precast concrete units are typically provided as wall panels for the external cladding of buildings, often as storey-height or grid-width units spanning between the floor slabs or columns of the structural frame. They may also be designed to act as load-bearing elements within structural frames.
Finishes & Facings
Units may be self-finished (i.e. seen concrete using special mixes to produce colour range and variety of techniques to texture surface) or faced (i.e. ordinary grey concrete is the unseen backing used to pre-assemble stone, bricks or tiles into larger panels)
Self-finished Panels
1. Reconstructed/reconstituted/cast stone (flat & textured mould formers)
Typical examples (click on the buttons to view examples):
Dolomite
Other examples:
2. Exposed aggregate
Typical examples:
Cornish granite
3. Ground (honed/polished)
Faced Panels
1. Natural stone (limestone, sandstone, granite, slate)
Typical examples (click on the buttons to view examples):
- Limestones
Jura
- Sandstones
Warthauer
Eichenbeuhl
Forest of Dean
- Granites
2. Clay Products (Brick, Tiles, Terracotta)
Typical examples (click on the buttons to view examples):
- Brick
- Tiles
- Terracotta