Tag: GRC

The Popularity of Cladding

Unless you’re an engineer, architect, tradesman, designer or somewhat involved in the field of development and construction, you probably aren’t too familiar with the term ‘cladding’ – not to worry you aren’t the only one, but from time to time knowledge like this could come in handy for many owners of homes, businesses structures and […]

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Melbourne’s Monash University Gets a Facelift

BMPX (Brookfield Multiplex) won the contract to overhaul building B17 “Innovative Walk”. Gallery Commercial were awarded the contract to supply the GRC cladding for the project. The design is by Rickard Engineering with supply by Polysources from Guangdong, China. Charles Rickard visited Polysources in August 2016. He was pleased to report to the BMPX team […]

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USE OF REGULAR AGED TESTING OF MODERN MIXES OF GRC TO JUSTIFY A HIGHER ACCEPTABLE DESIGN STRESS IS LONG OVERDUE

GRC was first developed in the 1950’s by the Building Research Establishment UK. Pilkington Bros developed its commercial application in the 1960’s. Since that time engineers have always given appropriate consideration to long-term loss of strength due to fibre creep. 60 years later, designers still use the same rules originally developed. However, mix design has […]

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Charles Rickard AKA Mr Big

Charles Rickard is responsible for many Australian and overseas landmark structures and has been involved in an array of incredible projects throughout his 40 year career. Some of these highlight projects include; Barangaroo, the new SCG West Stand, an Emir’s palace in Qatar, Basildon town centre redevelopment UK, Pacific Square shopping centre Maroubra, the Ceremonial […]

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