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Seat wall, sedimentary wall and hardscape.
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anced with a medium-cost green granite
become a signature quality that people
schedule tracking and construction, and its
Lithocrete vine and Lithocrete glass leafs
recognize when viewing or walking a
ability to run separate carpenter crews for
of multiple colors and designs.Within these
plaza, facility or retail area constructed
difficult areas, enabled the company to
design considerations, a curvilinear cold-
by Shaw & Sons.With digital instruments
build multiple areas in unison while Shaw’s
joint plan was created to work with
to lay out the project, the company’s
finishing crews placed or pumped concrete
approximately 16-foot by 16-foot, to 20-foot
field personnel look for code violations
daily for over five months. Everyday, the
by 20-foot, grids and was enhanced to meet
in elevations and find and correct them
Shaw project management team kept in
the typical projections that promote crack-
during forming, before placing and
sync with a daily yardage report that corre-
ing in concrete panels. That is, most of the
finishing the job.
sponded with, and tied to, pre-scheduled
cold joint layouts radiate from the points of
end dates. As each of the 17 individual
leaf shape designs, building columns, light
constructed in this development utilizing
areas was completed, ownership would
bollards, etc.
Shaw & Sons’ patent for constructing
Utilizing Shaw & Sons’ strengths in
walk the finished phase and sign off. Then
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With the help of Fong, Hart Schneider +
Three individual fountains were also
sedimentary layered walls.This created
Shaw & Sons used low-cost, virgin mill
Partners, landscape architects, Shaw & Sons
unique, unearthed appearing walls with
carpet to protect and cure each individual
pre-worked the civil elevations to produce
large crevices that revealed sands, mica,
segment until all phases were complete.
a “flatter,” easier plaza for people to walk
pyrite and other minerals, accenting the
through. This is typically a grossly over-
same green granite that was used in the
looked item by industry standards, but has
Lithocrete® vine.
To stay well within the design budget, a
low-cost, reinforced field paving was bal-