The brick cladding to one of the concrete boxes has been peeled away to reveal a five-storey-high board-marked concrete wall to the foyer. The tender documents defined an extensive run of sample wall that would be used as a control sample to agree the particular details and quality standards for the board-marked wall. This involved face-fixing timbers to the surface of a standard concrete form and checking the degree of chamfering required to the end of the applied boards to allow the removal of the form work without damaging the arrises.
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