The Louis Vuitton Foundation for Creation, a magical place imagined by Frank Gehry at the request of Bernard Arnault, President of the LVMH group, is gradually taking shape in the heart of the Paris’s Bois de Boulogne. The American-Canadian architect (Pritzker prize 1989), has designed a building wrapped with a big glass canopy (glass sails), comprised of assorted concrete facades in geometrical shapes, as original as they are complex, called icebergs …made in Ductal® using a unique process recently awarded by the French Concrete Industry Federation.

When Ductal® is used as a joint fill solution along with precast concrete deck panels, box girders or bulb-tee girder joints -- fabrication and installation processes are simplified, full deck continuity is achieved, the bridge deck joint is no longer the weakest link and... after 10 million truck wheel load test cycles, there is no leaking through the joint! A recognized solution: PCI Design Award, PCA Concrete Bridge Award...