How can concrete look anything but ugly?
Blame the architects who design ugly things. Designers resort to the box look either because they lack imagination or they just want to get something up as cheaply as possible. Keep in mind, there’s no shortage of residential wood boxes or plastic siding either. Concrete can be virtually any shape, color and texture. People need to shed their preconceived notions of what concrete buildings will look like. • What are the advantages of pre-formed foam? The pre-formed foam process offers excellent quality control and assurance of specified density. Preformed foam, unlike gas-forming chemicals, assures a consistent three-dimensional distribution of the engineered air cell system. Pre-formed foam produces a consistent matrix of relatively small air cells which are more desirable than a disorganized matrix of different size bubbles often created with the gas off method of reactive admixtures. • What are the disadvantages of lightweight concrete, compared to typical concrete? In the lower den
