Hurks Groep

Dutch architectural concrete for London

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High-quality sandwich façade elements on the factory site of Hurks in Veldhoven ready for shipment to the construction site in London, England

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The fully-automated welding machines are in operation for 24 hours, preparing reinforcement wire mesh for the production of wall elements

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Reinforcement cages for the façade elements are manually prepared, being provided with embedded parts afterwards

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The concrete slurries are washed out of the joints

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Workers of the Veldhoven factory are installing the window frames

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Who would not wish that? According to Koen Waijers, the production capacity of the precast concrete factory of Hurks Groep located in Veldhoven near Eindhoven is fully booked until 2018. The visitor does not have any doubt at all about the words of the manager of the precast concrete element division, not least because of the hustle and bustle in the production halls.

Hurks Groep, a family-owned company, is celebrating its hundreds anniversary in 2016. Today, the company is one of the Netherlands’ leading construction groups with reference projects across European countries, too (s. page 38,...