Using GFRC Effectively in the Landscape About Landscape Design Landscape design, if done well, meets the owner’s needs, enhances the community, increases the property’s resale value, and minimizes the human impact on the environment. Considerable thought and planning are necessary if a landscape design is to meet all these goals. Factors to Consider in Landscape [...]
October 28, 2011
Historic Facade Repair and Replacement: Complying with New York City Law 10/80 and 11/98
GFRC Info: Historic Restoration and Replication of Terra Cotta and Stone Facades with GFRC and Architectural Fiberglass Terra Cotta and Stone Facades Lose Their Grip as They Age New York City has some magnificent old buildings. On occasion, the age of these buildings causes problems. On rare occasions, some part of these buildings poses [...]
October 26, 2011
GFRC Info: Life-Cycle Costing
Life-Cycle Costing Shows GFRC Outshines the Competition Life-cycle costing is the process of obtaining the cost of a product throughout its’ lifetime in order to compare two or more products and choose the best one for the job. Sometimes the one that is the cheapest initially is the most expensive in the long run. Life-cycle [...]
October 24, 2011
GFRC Info: Lighting
Lighting with GFRC: Part 1 Have you ever been in a room that was so poorly lighted you cannot see where you are going? Or brightly lit, but the lights shone right in your eyes as you tried to look around? What about a path when it grows dark and you can no longer [...]
October 21, 2011
GFRC Info: Acoustics
Using GFRC to Manage Your Acoustics Acoustics in Architecture Acoustics are important in architecture. No one wants to live in a noisy home or shop in a noisy store. Focusing on noise reduction is especially important when the building in question is near a noisy freeway, playground, or other noisy venue. Acoustics management allows audiences [...]
October 19, 2011
GFRC Historic Preservation
Stromberg GFRC Helps Preserve Historic Buildings About Historical Preservation of Buildings Historical preservation is one of the keys to our past. It is restoring things to as close to the way they were when they were new as we can get. Some additions or modifications may be made, but they must not change the essential [...]
October 17, 2011
GFRC Info: Classical Entablatures
Classical Orders for GFRC Entablatures About Entablatures An entablature is the superstructure above the column but below the roof. The architecture of the entablature is generally chosen to match the architecture of the column. One would not put a Doric entablature over an Ionic column, for example. Entablatures are comprised of three parts: the [...]
October 15, 2011
GFRC Info: Classical Columns
Classical Orders for GFRC Columns About Classical Orders of Architecture The ancient Greeks were the first people to build extensively using what we now call Classical Architecture. Their extensive temples and other public buildings allowed them to hone these forms. The Romans, particularly Vitruvius, appreciated these principles. Vitruvius wrote Ten Books on Architecture in about [...]
October 13, 2011
GFRC Info: Wayfinding
GFRC Breadcrumbs for Your Consumers At its simplest, wayfinding is leaving a trail of breadcrumbs to lead the next person to the destination you want them to find. Of course, birds and squirrels tend to eat breadcrumbs, so something a little more concrete is nice. Stromberg Glass Fiber Reinforced Concrete structures make excellent breadcrumbs. [...]
October 10, 2011
GFRC Illuminated Bollards Add Security
Illuminated bollards meet both the need for security and the need for light. They can be used to line paths or block the flow of traffic, just as normal bollards can. The addition of the light, however, means they are more visible and less likely to be inadvertently struck. By the same token, by enclosing [...]
October 31, 2011
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