Mission Rock Building G has a facade with a high window-to-wall ratio of about 70% glass to 30% precast. Bevier said the “mega-panels” the company fabricated were approximately 16 feet tall by ...

Gate Precast Co. (Jacksonville, Fla., U.S.) won the contract to construct the concrete facade — basically, a series of window frames — for the One South First project. The company would, as is typical ...

Over 1,000 precast panel shapes were installed on the facade, and were optimized for manufacturing to be highly repetitive. The architects say over 80% of the building features panel shapes that ...

The flexibility of 3D printed precast panels helps architects achieve an exterior facade that looks like sugar crystals as a nod to the building's former owner, Domino Sugar Refinery.

Precast is only cost effective if it can be manufactured regionally, and maximizing the efficiencies generated by the precast demands a mid-rise (10-12-story) format.

Precast construction technology represents Finnish high-tech know-how at its best. The country’s professionalism in precast technology originates from its extensive application of this construction ...

After refining the design in Revit, Gate’s BIM operators modeled more than 100,000 square feet of precast cladding on the museum’s exterior for Morphosis’ 3-D models.

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 ...

The facades comprise a series of storey-height precast concrete columns which support precast concrete spandrel panels.The columns are on a 12m grid, a width dictated by groundbearing problems. At ...