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Understanding the Big Trends

The Big Picture

• Energy Efficiency

• LEED - Green

• Bio-Construction

• ICF

Sustainable

Construction

Building TrendsSurfacing

Trends

Aggregates

Trends

• Recycling Innovations

• New Materials

• Lifestyle Trends

• Architectural Concrete

• Special Concretes

• Flooring

• Industry Trends

• Recycling

Architects

Engineers

Building Science Contrast

Sustainable Development

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ULTRA HIGH PERFORMANCE CONCRETE

Bendable and Ultra High Performance

Fiber-Reinforced Concrete

Solution to the to the design and building of singular/ slender structures.

Thinner and slender structures

Depth - Weight

Equal performance, less weight

New aesthetic frontiers

Increase speed of construction

Prestressed Concrete

20 in, 313 lb/ft

Reinforced Concrete

28 in, 355 lb/ft

Steel

14 in, 75 lb/ft

UHPFRC

14 in, 94 lb/ft

UNIQUE BUILDINGS

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Admixtures/ additives - key to meeting performancerequirements of these unique structures

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GLOBAL ARCHITECTURE TRENDS

A shimmering sail of glass over ShenzenBillowing planes of blue glass wrap the exterior, while structural cross-bracing elements are expressed through the translucent elevations

Fujimoto design for "modern follies" Japanese architect Sou Fujimoto has unveiled plans for a tower block shaped like a pine cone with balconies sprouting outwards in all directions, as part of a series of "modern follies" underway in Montpellier, France.