The developers opted to use a Spec-Brik to achieve the look of brick since it was most cost effective. In addition, detailing the wall was much easier since Spec-Brik is concrete product and it was laid with bands of ground face block.
Any designer knows detailing block and brick in the same wythe is tricky since one grows and one shrinks. Spec-Brik made this project easy to detail and construct.
Project Details:
Product: Spec-Brik, a CMU product that replicates the look of brick.
Project: Best Buy
Location: Parker, CO
Producer: Basalite
Architect/Engineer: SEM, Denver, CO
Masonry Contractor: Berich Masonry, Denver, CO
Product Advantages:
- Spec-Brik helped the project to stay on budget
- Popular brick shape
- Custom Integral color
- Requires no finishing on exterior or interior surfaces
- Serves as load bearing wall
- Minimizes number of construction products needed
- Cuts construction time
- Reduces life time operating cost
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