The ground floor in concrete banché wood, provides a natural language.

Because of its strength, cement is widely used for construction projects.

To do TRAN Carl envisioned a place with neutral basis, using the existing concrete shuttered complemented by a kind of polished concrete floor.

One thousand four hundred and ten dwellings were built from 1921 onwards, using paving concrete for the first time in an industrial way.

In order to guarantee their solidity and waterproofing, the promoter opted for a reinforced concrete structure and joints treated with epoxy resin.

In order to provide the building with extra stability, it was completely built using cast in-situ concrete up to a height of 600 metres with the remaining 228m made from structural steel with pre-cast concrete floor slabs.

On the site of an old structure at the entrance to the Saint Ouen Flea Market on the outskirts of Paris, a large building in brick, concrete panels and zinc was constructed in 2012.

Denys Lasdun’s 1976 cast-concrete National Theatre (once compared, by the Prince of Wales, to a nuclear power station) has just had a much admired £80 million refurbishment.

The life cycle assessment with a period of 100 years for 1 square meters of a hemp shuttered concrete wall set in a wood structure (26 cm thickness) keeps from 14 to 35 kg CO2 equivalent per square meters: that’s huge!