B. T. innovation

Organic shapes easily formed with Syflex

A formwork system was sought for the construction of a residential and commercial building with a demanding architecture in Ahlbeck, only a few paces away from the Baltic Sea. A lot of formwork systems are available on the market, but this building project is characterized by an extraordinary shape of the building structure. There are hardly any corners; the outer shell meanders in curves around the building structure. A flexible, reusable formwork for the foundation slab, circular beam, floor slabs, and balcony slabs was looked for accordingly.

Conventional formwork systems made from wood,...

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