As
sprayed concrete technologies have advanced so have its
uses, Shotcrete Services have built
a number of structural buildings using reinforced sprayed
concrete. The largest of these being the Selfridges
Building in Brimingham & the Darwin
Cocoon at the Natural History
Museum. Both these buildings utilized structural reinforcing
and C40 sprayed concrete to meet the structural design
loadings.
The multi-curved nature of both building’s excluded
the use of traditional cast concrete due to excessive
shuttering costs. Shotcrete Services have developed
a technique using a ‘lost shutter’ system
that enables the 200 -300mm thick walls to be constructed
without the use of formwork.
The Company has also constructed a number of Gurdwara
temple domes & barrel vaults for the Sikh Community.
Often these utilize white sprayed concrete to eliminate
finishing costs.