Projects and new buildings with façades made of precast concrete elements

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Smooth white concrete panels for the two buildings of Bext Skyline (Madrid) – PREFABRICADOS PONCE

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Perforated panels made of ultra-high performance concrete (UHPC) for the refurbishment and extension of the shopping center in the Lyon quarter of La Part Dieu – PREHORQUISA

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Precast concrete façade in industrial sgraffito technique at a newly built residential complex in Barcelona (district of Ensanche) – ESCOFET

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Architectural concrete panels for the construction of social housing according to the passive house standard in Sarriguren – VIGUETAS NAVARRAS

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Façade made of white architectural concrete panels for the Carmen Conde senior citizens‘ residence in Cartagena – POSTELECTRICA FABRICACIÓN

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Precast panels made of reinforced concrete with reinforcement free of thermal bridges for the new exhibition halls on the IFEDI premises in Ciudad Real – FORMAC

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Cantilever building structures made of precast elements for a real estate project with single-family houses in Bormujos – PREFABRICADOS HERMANOS QUIJADA

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Façade made of GFRC precast components at a steel structure for the fitness center of Hotel HL Club in Playa Blanca (Lanzarote – GRUPO ANTONIO AFONSO

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Concrete bricks for the new domicile of the Kina Jiménez dance academy in Almería – BLOQUES BARRUCA

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Facing made of C-12 bricks for new housing construction in Torrevieja – TABICEM

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The Spanish concrete association ANDECE regularly presents new reference projects where precast concrete elements have been used from its member companies in the trade magazine CementoHormigón. This article showcases ten examples – using colored concrete or surface-refined concrete predominantly – of the past few months.

In the context of the growing significance of sustainability criteria, ever more carbon-reduced solutions and the recycling principle are gaining ground [1] or the number of construction projects is increasing continuously, which require ever more industrialized construction solutions due to the increased application of technologies such as BIM and/or a higher degree of automation in the factories. Against the background that ever more processes, which were traditionally executed on the construction site directly, are transferred to the factory, precast concrete elements as part of...