Precast Cornices – The Elegant Architectural Crowning
The cornice is an architectural detail that crowns the work, lending the building its final character, style, and elegance. It is an element that combines a practical function—protecting the façade from streaks—with the sophisticated aesthetics of a three-dimensional form.
Due to its often unique and complex geometry, prefabrication is the ideal technology for creating these key details. It guarantees perfection and repeatability of shape that is virtually unattainable when executed under traditional conditions on the construction site.
Complete Freedom in Detail Shaping
We treat cornices not as a standard add-on, but as an integral part of the architectural vision. Therefore, we offer the same advanced finishing techniques on these three-dimensional elements as we do on our flat façade panels. This ensures complete material consistency and unlimited creative possibilities.
Our technologies include, among others:
- Working with texture and structure (exposed aggregate, grinding, grooving)
- Any color scheme (mass-colored concrete)
- Unique, personalized patterns (Graphic Concrete, imprints from matrices, 3D printing)
- Individually designed concrete mixes to achieve the desired visual effect.
Key Benefits:
- Uncompromising Creative Freedom: We execute cornices with both simple and highly complex, organic geometries, giving architects complete freedom in designing expressive details.
- Ideal Repeatability and Quality: Every precast cornice is a perfect reflection of the digital design, with guaranteed sharp edges, smooth surfaces, and full consistency across the entire series.
- Durability for Decades: Precast architectural concrete provides the highest resistance to weather conditions, frost, and corrosion, protecting the façade for decades.
- Cohesion with the Façade System: Cornices are designed as a fully compatible element of our wall systems, which guarantees easy, precise assembly and a coherent appearance of the entire building.
Applications:
Our precast cornices serve as the façade finish in facilities such as:
- Prestigious residential buildings and apartment complexes,
- Modern office buildings and hotels,
- Public utility buildings,
- Renovation and modernization projects where the restoration of historical detail is required.
Let’s discuss the detail that will define your project. Contact us to discuss the possibilities for custom-made cornices.
Our certificates
Nordcert
It awards certificates for products, processes and persons in the field of reinforcement, concrete and aggregates and educates in the area of related competences.
Betong och Ballast Certifiering
Swedish industry certificate. Products marked with it require only a simplified acceptance control and do not require testing of the declared properties.
PÜZ BAU
In its current form – a control body for precast concrete and reinforced concrete elements – PÜZ BAU has been operating since 2006.
PÜZ BAU
In its current form – a control body for precast concrete and reinforced concrete elements – PÜZ BAU has been operating since 2006.
