Press Review

• Ductal® design contest.
Lafarge, in conjunction with the city of Valenciennes, is launching a contest for making street furniture and urban furnishings with Ductal® for a square in the city centre.
batiactu.com – 8 December 2004

• The first French bridge made of Ductal® fibre reinforced concrete will soon be built
The first French bridge using Ductal® will be built in December in Mayenne.
Le Moniteur des Travaux publics et du Bâtiment – 19 November 2004

• Bamboo revitalises a building facade.
379 white Ductal® pots planted with bamboo sprouts are randomly placed on balconies.
Les Cahiers Techniques du Bâtiment – November 2004

• The Pavillon de l’Arsenal gets a makeover.
Ductal® characteristics were chosen to meet the requirements and constraints imposed for realising the scenography of the new permanent exhibition at the Pavillon de l’Arsenal.
Economie et Construction - October 2004

• Programme 4000: prisons reply with dignity to their finality.
Very high level architectural quality makes the job easier for penitentiary employees and other professionals who regularly work in prison. New prison construction: 4000 lodgings, space design made more complex by managing flow. Specific construction often using a great deal of concrete, the quarters for minors and solitary confinement are made with Ductal®.
Chantiers de France - October 2004

• Ductal® concrete as a product for museum scenography.
The historic hall of the Pavillon de l’Arsenal made with Ductal®.
Atrium Construction – October/November 2004
  

• Light through the pane.
The Forum is covered with a large square roof. This cover is made with Ductal® coffers and covered with copper pierced with rectangular glass holes.
Libération – 16 October 2004

• Municipal garden.
Place de la République in Rennes: Ductal® concrete was used to lighten planters and benches.
Résidences Décoration – September/October 2004

• Les Filles du Destin made with high performance concrete.
Greek mythology inspired sculptures reproduced in Ductal® concrete by J-Michel Solvès.
Batiactu.com – 24 September 2004

• Ductal® concrete for Queen Sofia’s Museum in Madrid.
Ductal® performances for columns.
Ingénierie et Conseil – September 2004

• The Pavillon de L’Arsenal gets a second mineral skin.
Self-supporting shell modules hug floors, walls and ceiling contours like a skin. Creation of a continuous skin in Ductal®: description, manufacture and structure of a module.
Les Cahiers Techniques du Bâtiment – September 2004

• Maintaining artwork. Safety, technicality and durability.
Artwork for highway and railway networks represents an important heritage that wears over time. Interview with Ch.Tridon President of the STRRES and CEO of ARTEM; maintenance and rehabilitation of works and techniques for sounding and repairing. Characteristics of Ductal®.
Chantiers de France – September 2004
   

• Ductal® could be bombproof.
Ductal® has properties that are resistant to explosions and impact and could be used for applications to fight terrorist attacks.
Chantiers de France – September 2004

• Materialthèque. Precision concrete.
Characteristics for a new generation of concrete, SLC and UHPC. Diagram of a Ductal® webbing.
AMC – September 2004

• Performance to the wingtips.
Manufacturing, advantages and limitations of UHPC. Ductal® construction sites.
Forum Chantiers – August/September 2004

• When bamboo dresses the facade.
Ductal® planters with bamboo sprouts have taken over the balconies of a building in the Asnières ZAC.
Paysage Actualités - July/August 2004

• New types of concrete.
Pavillon de l'Arsenal. Using Ductal®. Overall view and description of the great hall.
L’architecture d’aujourd’hui - July/August 2004

• Australians test the resistance of Ductal® to explosions.
Real scale test campaign to evaluate Ductal® resistance to explosion and impact (anti-terrorist protection applications).
Le Moniteur des Travaux Publics et du Bâtiment – 2 July 2004

• Bamboo building
Ductal® pots planted with bamboo on balconies.
Le lien horticole – 1 July 2004