Preface: Has time passed concrete by?
You sometimes hear people talk about the postcement era. This refers to replacing the nearly 200 years old Portland cement with loweremission binders or concrete with some other building materials....
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You sometimes hear people talk about the postcement era. This refers to replacing the nearly 200 years old Portland cement with loweremission binders or concrete with some other building materials....
The welcoming five- and seven-storey apartment blocks share a common courtyard area and the complex also includes a three-storey car park. The plan was based on a variable undulation of...
The buildings at 10 and 22 Turumankatu Street comprise a tower block and a row house, joined together. The objective has been to emphasise the single-material nature of the buildings...
The concept of the laboratories and institute rooms is a continuation of the PMU on the opposite side of the street, which was completed in 2013 and also planned by...
The Lyyra project under construction in east downtown part of Helsinki will become a whole new city block on top of the Hakaniemi metro station. The developer in the large-scale...
Joints are an essential element of surface structures and facades built from concrete. The purpose of jointing is to seal the parts of the structures so that the end result...
Increasing use of blast furnace slag concretes creates a need to be more aware of their properties. Aaro Happonen investigated drying of six different concretes containing blast furnace slag in...
The concrete industry is facing an increased need to find ecologically sustainable solutions. The City of Helsinki has introduced a requirement for using low-emission fresh concrete and products made of...
Kesko’s new logistics centre is under construction in Hyvinkää. The 85,000 square-metre logistics centre, which will be completed in phases, is built on a strong concrete foundation and requires a...
ReCreate (Reusing prefabricated concrete for a circular economy) is an EU funded project focused on deconstruction and reuse of precast concrete elements. ReCreate pushes towards circular construction by investigating the...
In the Department of Architecture at Aalto University, basic studies include the familiarisation with the most common building materials through different exercise works. In the basic course of building technologies,...
