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The first
project using SFI Precasting Plant was a housing project consisting of 1,026
apartments, about 73 m 2 of floor area each, in 171 buildings. The project was
built in 1978-79 using the large panel system: bearing walls and reinforced
concrete slabs. Stairs and landings in the project were also executed with precast elements.
Subsequently, in the second
half of 1979, hollowcore production started at the SFI plant. The large panel
system was developed to use hollowcore slabs instead of reinforced concrete
slabs. Two housing projects were built in Amman and Zarka. They included
together 376 apartments, about 130 m 2 of floor area each, in 66 buildings.
As long as no more large
housing projects were launched in Jordan after 1981, other construction systems
using columns and beams had to be developed. The Royal National Geographic
Center, designed by the well known French Architect Rogers Taillibert, was built
using this latter system. Precast reinforced concrete footings, columns, beams
and cladding as well as precast prestressed hollowcore slabs were used to
complete the said remarkable buildings.
SFI factory became specialized
in providing turnkey structures, generally multi-storied, with or without
precast external cladding.
The success of such structures
was demonstrated lately in an industrial complex launched by a real estate
company for light industries in which two buildings were provided by SFI, while
a third one, similar in scope, was built using traditional methods. The clients
willing to buy workshops and stores in the complex prefer to buy in the
buildings executed by SFI.
This does not mean that SFI is
not producing and erecting precast elements like hollowcore slabs, cladding
elements, boundary walls and other precast elements.
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