Litecrete Lightweight Precast Used on Unique City Structure

59 France Street, designed by architects Paul Brown & Associates, is a striking building with a timeless blend of late 1940’s warehouse and contemporary architecture, constructed in durable and honest materials. The external strategy is transfused internally to be cool and enduring, creating edgy living solutions for modern individuals.

The history of the area is set within the blue-collar warehouses and workshops once populating the surrounding streets. The modernist structure is designed with a unique concrete and panelled facade, with black shuttered vertical detailing. These two aspects create a unifying contrast, bringing the building into the future of the neighbourhood, while referencing its history.

Litecrete lightweight precast spandrels, each spanning two bays of windows with in-built windowsills, were installed onto the structure prior to the installation of the brick facing veneer. 40% lighter than standard precast, Litecrete contributed to reducing the overall deadload on this iconic-looking structure.

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Litecrete builds on traditional pre-cast concrete advantages by offering a lightweight alternative in the form of exterior and interior walls, firewalls, acoustic walls, vertical façade fins, and clip-on exterior cladding panels.

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Commercial panel sizes are tailored to suit the project.

The design, application, engineering, panel sizes and installation requirements for low-rise and high-rise Litecrete commercial projects differ markedly from residential installations. Potential uses are exterior cladding, sunshades, fins, acoustic or firewalls and façade re-instatements.

All Litecrete prouct applications are subject to specific engineering design by a registered structural engineer (not by Litecrete) prior to lodging a Building Consent application.

The Litecrete Construction System, which is subject to specific engineering design, meets the following performance requirements of the building code:

Clause B1 STRUCTURE: Performance B1.3.1, B1.3.2 and B1.3.4 for the relevant conditions in B1.3.3. a,b,f,g,h,i,j
Clause B2 DURABILITY: Performance B2.3.1, 50 years
Clause C3 SPREAD OF FIRE: Performance C3.3.5
Clause E2 EXTERNAL MOISTURE: Performance E2.3.2, E2.3.3, E2.3.6
Clause E3 INTERNAL MOISTURE: Performance E3.3.1
Clause F2 HAZARDOUS BUILDING MATERIALS: Performance F2.3.1
Clause G6 AIR & IMPACT SOUND: Performance G6.3.1
Clause H1 ENERGY EFFICIENCY: Performance H1.3.1, H1.3.2