Filigree supports made of spun concrete
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| Supports with decorative concrete surface finishing -- at the Centre for the Medical Fraternity (Haus der Ärzteschaft), in Düsseldorf |
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The technology of Europoles makes it possible to implement columns and other supports that set effective and highly impressive accents in form and colour. Europoles has enabled many advanced buildings to attain international prominence as a result of their distinctive facades: implemented with high-strength supports and columns made of spun concrete. Europoles' optimal combination of stylistic elegance and high loadbearing capacity enables unexcelled supports that make your building an absolutely unique creation. - Aesthetic forms -- columns with unusual cross-sections
- Slim eye catchers -- round supports with small diameters that support great loads
- Impressive tilting -- oblique precast-concrete columns
- Coloured accents -- supports with attractive pigment accentuation
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The demand by architects and planners for healthy and sustainable building materials is becoming increasingly greater. An expert study commissioned by Europoles has now shown that spun concrete columns have considerably more favourable environmental impact, over their live cycles, than do composite steel columns. This results primarily from special efforts taken by Europoles during manufacture of the poles. Owing to their solid steel cores, composite steel columns give rise to considerably greater negative environmental effects than do spun concrete columns, which use considerably less material owing to their structural characteristics. In addition to use of less material, the application of reinforcing steel with a great recyclable share – as well as the lack of need for maintenance of spun concrete columns – has positive influences on the ecological performance statement.
If you would like to read the entire Ecological Life Cycle Assessment, then please click here:
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Whether oval, angular, or round, Europoles spun-concrete columns and supports can be manufactured in all rotationally symmetric forms -- and with a choice of many decorative concrete surface finishes. > more |
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Transparency and ease -- unusually small cross-sections, together with the high load-carrying capacity of spun concrete, make it possible to support a building in such a way that the roof seems to float in mid-air. > more |
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Coloured accents or optical integration -- the surface of the columns and supports harmonizes with the colour of the facade, or sets an impressive contrast. > more |
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Coloured accents or optical integration -- the surface colouration of the support picks up the color of the facade or sets an impressive contrast. > more |
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There is Europoles style, and there is Europoles technology. Here, you'll find information on load-bearing capacities, connection details, and effective use of the hollow column cavity for utilities lines and drainage pipes. > more |
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