Title: Products & Practice Spotlight: Innovation in Vertical Concrete Polishing

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Publication: Concrete International

Volume: 38

Issue: 8

Appears on pages(s): 62-64

Keywords: machine, cast-in-place, wall, column

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Date: 8/1/2016

Abstract:
Faena House, an 18-story condominium complex in Miami Beach, FL, comprises 40,000 ft2 (3700 m2) of polished, cast-in-place structural concrete walls. Until now, large areas of vertical concrete walls were typically polished as plant-cast and site-cast precast concrete pieces before they were erected. For this project, however, an inventor designed and built automated machines capable of grinding and polishing of vertical surfaces.