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The Gevelklaar System: Precast concrete elements by the Dutch producer Spaansen

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The Gevelklaar production at the Spaansen plant near Harlingen, Netherlands. On the left you can see the racks with the Vandersanden brick slips, in the centre the technical centrepiece, the automatic laying station developed by Lingl.

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The brick slips are applied to the insulation layer using a 2-component adhesive. The precast concrete wall element is clearly visible below.

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Almost finished precast wall element with integrated thermal insulation and brick slip facade. The joints between the brick slips are subsequently filled with mortar.

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The finished elements are loaded onto special transport vehicles (e.g. from the Irish provider Combilift) and delivered to the construction sites just in time

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Victor Albers, Business Manager Industrial Customers at Vandersanden, and Thom Spaansen, Manager of the Gevelklaar plant, show Victor Kapr (Zi/Bauverlag) the result of their joint work (from the left)

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Near Harlingen on the North Sea coast in the Dutch province of Friesland is the precast concrete element factory of the company Spaansen. For more than three years, ready-to-build, prefabricated elements of the Gevelklaar brand have been produced there. These are precast concrete elements with window and door reveals, integrated cable ducts, an insulation layer of Expanded Polystyrene (EPS) and clinker brick slips on the facade side. That allows concrete precast elements to acquire a traditional brick slip facade.Production is fully automated. The brick slips are laid by robots following a...