“The need for landscape architecture has never been greater,” AILA National Awards jury chair Claire Martin says. “Whether by accelerating adaptation, strategising for carbon and flood mitigation, increasing biodiversity or improving the health of our waterways. Likewise, landscape architects can strengthen people’s connection with their environment and to each other, improve livelihoods and health outcomes, foster truth telling and simply bring joy to people.”
When you are using precast concrete to bring your landscape design to life, select from a wide range of standard and non-standard aggregate options to achieve a truly spectacular design outcome.
Precast concrete is often used to create unique outdoor features and landscaping elements. Precast concrete offers a wealth of customisation options. SVC Products explains how using the right kind of aggregate materials in a concrete mix can create amazing results.
Standard aggregate materials
Standard aggregates typically used by SVC in their concrete mixes include stones of varying sizes sourced from local quarries. There are attractive options such as quartz, river pebble, bluemetal and granite, offering clients a wide design palette to consider for their projects. Experimenting with the size of the aggregates, whether coarse or fine as well as the base colour of the concrete mix provides additional ways to customise the final product to suit design objectives.