The Pantheon in Rome and the Basilica of Hagia Sophia in Istanbul are spectacular examples that remain ... to the high costs of labor, concrete, and methods of formwork that could hardly be ...

Another example in high-rise structures is the increased use of self-climbing formwork used ... is to ask concrete forming contractors to be involved early in the design stage of the structure.

An architecture student has devised a clever way to build strong, stable vaulted floors using far less concrete and steel than usual, with a novel formwork design inspired by origami. The Unfold ...

The concrete ... For example, 2D can’t reflect all aspects of a project as they exist in real life. When relying on 2D, the information needed for timely, high-quality formwork planning is ...

But researchers with ETH Zurich have pioneered an alternative—a vaulted concrete design that achieves the ... a foldable, reusable formwork system that makes laying concrete much easier.

Despite these impressive stats, the technology has been developed to preserve and enhance design freedom. The concrete form ... Courtesy of Odico Formwork Robotics The example set by Aarhus ...

The concrete facade also shows a textured finish created from the grain of the pine formwork used in the casting process. The wooden formwork was then cleaned and planed for reuse on the interior ...

Within a work tunnel for the construction of the drainage channel tunnel, part of the side wall will be built with embedded formwork that uses concrete made with fixated CO 2 achieving negative costs.