Vollert Anlagenbau

Precast concrete building system
for residential housing in Chile developed

Efforts to push industrialized building in Chile already existed in the early 1970s. At that time, a collaboration had been agreed between the former Soviet Union and the Chilean government for construction of more than 150 detached houses and 3,500 apartments in the V region (editor’s note: greater Valparaíso in central Chile). Since that initiative, a number of attempts have been made to increase productivity, reduce manual work flows, and improve the quality of buildings.

However, since it was often difficult to raise at the same time all the important factors involved in a construction...

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