Urban Regeneration
Urban regeneration is comprehensive approach that merges vision and action, aimed at resolving the multi-faceted problems of deprived urban areas, and is a term for the various strategies to restore profitability and/or repopulate areas of the city deemed to be in decline.
Also termed ‘urban renewal’ or ‘reconstruction’, it describes a broad range of interventions in the built environment and in communities facilitated by the state, the private sector, public-private partnerships, or less commonly, by community-level agencies.
In essence, urban regeneration promises physical, material, or spatial solutions to social and economic problems. Given that it almost always involves land at least already partly occupied and in commercial use.
So how does sprayed concrete play a part in this regeneration?
In the past few decades sprayed concrete has been used for the construction of indoor climbing walls, but more frequently has been utilised for the construction of outdoor climbing structures such as bouldering walls and public park play area installations.
What are the benefits of sprayed concrete in urban regeneration?
- Hard wearing surfaces require zero maintenance
- Vandal proof and robust structures offer long term lifespan and value engineering
- Rapid construction method allows use of climbing feature in a short time frame
- Can be adapted and re-shaped to suit future re-design requirements
- Use of colours and carving techniques can replicate local geology/rock formations and blend into the local environment
- Carries established British Standards for construction and use
Successful sprayed concrete work requires the combination of many aspects of modern concrete technology particularly concrete admixture chemistry, combined with modern materials handling technology.
The increasing demands for cost-effectiveness and the protection of health and the environment mean that sprayed concrete has been in continuous development for the last few decades with a proven track record.
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The increasing demands for cost-effectiveness and the protection of health and the environment mean that sprayed concrete has been in continuous development for the last few decades with a proven track record.