New construction projects built with precast elements in Spain, Mexico and the USA

The Spanish concrete association ANDECE regularly reports on new reference projects executed by its member companies with precast elements. The following contribution presents outstanding examples from recent months, particularly from Spain, but also from Mexico and the USA.

The construction industry is now at a crucial turning point. Precast elements have already proved for decades to be the best option for implementing the one or other construction project. Lately, however, the industry has experienced a genuine boom as a result of the combination of various factors. Digitization, decarbonation and social aspects such as the lack of human resources, however, represent the current stumbling blocks for a rapid and unavoidable development: the industrialization of building. Future-oriented projects such as the construction projects that we present here ideally show...

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