The owners chose tilt-up concrete construction for this fast-track two-building facility because of inherent benefits of appearance, thermal quality, durability and speed of construction. The project comprises a 21,000 square-foot two-story office/training center and a 20,000 square-foot warehouse. Insulated concrete sandwich wall panels were used throughout.
The building exterior treatment is natural concrete, with simple rustication bands and exposed aggregate. Warehouse wall panels are designed to be relocated for future building expansion. The general contractor, Kocourek S.A. de Construcciones CIF el, Buenos Aires, a Con/Steel licensee, also performed the tilt-up work, the first in Argentina. Due to a lack of conventional hardware, Kocourek had to design and fabricate their own lifting devices for the 75,000-pound panels. The architect was Aslan Y Ezcurra Y Asociados, Buenos Aires, and the engineer was LJB Engineers & Architects, Dayton, Ohio.
Buenos Aires,
Argentina
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ACHIEVEMENT
1998
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