FRP means Form, Reo and Pour — formwork and its temporary works, reinforcement fixing, and concrete placement, delivered as one structural package. Most FRP contractors first see a project at tender, when the drawings are developed and many of the decisions driving...
FRP means form, reo and pour — the formwork that shapes the concrete, the reinforcement fixed inside it, and the concrete placed, compacted and cured. On a building, those three repeat floor after floor. On a civil structure, they usually...
FRP in construction means form, reo and pour — the three trades that build a concrete structure. Form is the temporary mould, reo is the steel reinforcement fixed inside it, and pour is the concrete placed, compacted and cured within...
Every large-scale project reaches a point where the programme stops being a plan and starts being a problem. A wet fortnight, a late design package, a slow start out of the ground, and suddenly there are weeks to find. The question that follows...
Walk a large-scale project at its busiest and most of what you can see will not be there at the end. Formwork panels, temporary supports, bracing, edge protection and access platforms fill the site, get stripped floor by floor and eventually leave...
