Architect
Ductal® qualities
Architects working with masonry but also seeking lightness can now give free rein to their creativity and imagination with the arrival of revolutionary Ductal®.
This fiber-reinforced, ultra-high performance material combines outstanding strength with casting fluidity, facilitating the creation of highly complex and elegantly simple forms.
Technology married to aesthetics
Ductal®’s unique qualities make it a particularly innovative material for major civil engineering projects and concrete construction, to the satisfaction of architects seeking to combine technological performance and aesthetics.
Ductal®’s unique mechanical properties – compressive strengths (up to 200 MPa) and flexural strengths (up to 40 MPa), and ductility allow for longer spans and reduced sections and volumes.
This opens the door to elegant, contemporary design and provides outstanding durability for major civil engineering works such as bridges and walkways.
Ductal® is also preferred for its resistance to corrosion, abrasion, carbonation and impact strength.
It is ideal for structures built in harsh settings such as marine or industrial environments and buildings open to the public, with demanding maintenance and safety requirements.
Ductal®'s architectonic potential distinguishes it above any other material, for both new construction and renovation projects.
Casting ease and fluidity facilitate the construction of large-scale, highly complex, very thin precast structures to an extent never before reached with conventional concrete materials.
Ductal® has thus revolutionized the construction sector as the ideal material for building envelopes, acoustic sound panels, facing / panel walls, cornice outlines, flooring and other applications for which it offers a wide range of textures due to its outstanding ability to replicate mold, formworkand/or pattern surface detail.
Ductal® also represents an enormous leap forward in the use of concrete in the urban environment. Its outstanding qualities, particularly with respect to durability and maintenance, can make it a preferred alternative to steel, cast iron, aluminum, plastic or wood.
It may also be used to compliment with other materials, either contrasting with them or blending smoothly together.
