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Concrete - strong, durable and beautiful
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September 1, 2005
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Concrete is a wonderful material. It can be shaped, coloured, textured, poured, precast, sprayed and plastered. Strong, durable, cost-effective and productive, there is a wide variety of things that can be built in concrete from bridges to garden gnomes. Bearing this in mind, it is a mystery why concrete is not the automatic material of choice in every aspect of our industry.
Structurally, it may be close to that position but aesthetically and architecturally, exploitation of the inherent advantages of concrete is patchy at best and a long way from maximising the potential afforded by current and widely available knowledge. The concrete supply chain is not aggressively promoting the use and ...
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