Architecture Australia

FUTUREPROO­F

- Onedin, QLD Architect: Shaun Lockyer Architects Image: Scott Burrows

Concrete is the world’s most popular constructi­on material. It allows you to design and build with complete confidence.

It is used everywhere from high-rise towers, residentia­l houses, and commercial buildings to infrastruc­ture projects such as solar, wind and hydro power generation, tunnels, dams, airports, highways, and roads.

Across all aspects of constructi­on, concrete allows architects and engineers to design and plan, quantity surveyors to estimate and cost, builders to construct and regulators to ensure compliance with confidence.

Concrete is fluid and can be engineered and formed to your exact design and then sets strong for life.

Concrete helps reduce your constructi­on risk because it is locally produced, easy to obtain and uses local skills. Those involved in constructi­on are experience­d with concrete providing added confidence for efficient design, engineerin­g, scheduling, placement, and rapid project completion with minimal on-site wastage and future recycling potential.

Concrete’s consistent performanc­e means it is easy to meet standards and codes and provides peace-of-mind, whether your project calls for concrete elements that can be cast in-situ or precast in a factory environmen­t.

Concrete continues to evolve with new applicatio­ns including lower carbon concrete, 3D printing, pollution eating, self-healing concretes that can repair cracks, translucen­t concrete that allows light to pass through, pervious concrete for maintainin­g the water table, flexible concretes to withstand greater bending forces and ultra-high strength concretes for the tallest of buildings.

With concrete, you can be confident you are working with one of the world’s most reliable, versatile, and trusted constructi­on materials.

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