White Concrete Cladding for Hotel in Marseille

Technique Béton successfully contributes to Hotel Compound in Europe’s Third Largest Seaport, Marseille, France

The third largest European seaport, Marseille, is not only an attractive destination for tourists, but also an important location for the French industry. In order to meet the great demand for hotel rooms created by tourists and business people each year, a new building compound is being constructed in Marseille. This new compound will not only include parking spaces and shops, but is also going to contain a Suitehôtel as well as a new IBIS-hotel.

For this project, Technique Béton supplied high quality concrete admixtures, special mortars and magnet stripes for recesses.

The use of „white concrete“ is one specific feature within this project. This fair faced concrete forms the finished surface, thus making further wall cladding redundant.

Special two component mortars Ravalchoc NF and Ravalchoc blanc are used for smoothing concrete. The high performance mortar Ravalchoc NF achieves a compressive strength of 58MPa after 28 days.

Technique Béton also supplied the mould release agents Décosyntec 2001 and 2003 for stripping precast elements from formwork. Both products are water resistant and offer corrosion protection.

In addition, very thin magnetic stripes with strong magnet forces are used for recesses. Thanks to the mould release agents Déco - syntec, these magnets can be easily removed from the mould after finishing the concreting works. Technique Béton is looking forward to contribu - ting to new important infrastructural projects in France in the future.