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3 unusual facts about Precast concrete


Ben Vane

The dam wall lies two km to the north of the quarry and a conveyor belt was constructed to carry the crushed stone over the lower slopes of Ben Vane to the batching plant beside the dam.

High Five Interchange

However, Zachry decided to use precast concrete segmental bridges, rather than casting the bridge elements in place, and used a unique machine, designed and constructed by Deal S.R.L. of Italy and costing about $1 million, to move the pieces into place.

Precast concrete

In the modern world, precast panelled buildings were pioneered in Liverpool, England, in 1905.


Newmarket Viaduct

The new viaduct is composed of 468 separate bridge deck sections, produced in a precast facility in East Tamaki.

Zamil Industrial

products = Pre-engineered building, Structural steel, Air conditioning and climate control systems, telecom and transmission towers, process equipment, Precast concrete building products, Fiberglass, Rock wool and engineered plastic foam Building insulation materials, and Solar power


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American Ramp Company

Additionally, in August 2008, it was announced that American Ramp Company had purchased Solo Ramps from Nicolet, Quebec, Canada for an undisclosed amount and would move production of the precast concrete operation to their facility in Joplin, MO.

Berthold Lubetkin

These schemes, the Cranbrook Estate, Dorset Estate (which featured the tower Sivill House) and the Lakeview Estate all made increased use of precast concrete façade panels while developing the idiom of complicated abstract facades and Constructivist staircases established in the 1940s.

Bocholt–Wesel railway

The siding of the precast concrete plant of Max Bögl in Hamminkeln is served as necessary to supply materials for construction projects, mostly tunnels, by trains operated by Bocholter Eisenbahngesellschaft mbH on behalf of DB Schenker.

John Fitzgerald Kennedy Memorial

Noted architectural critic Witold Rybczynski wrote that the monument is "poorly done," likening its precast concrete slab walls to "mammoth Lego blocks."