Thank you for your interest in the PCI Color and Texture Selection Guide. This guide provides an excellent tool for helping architects define and attain their design aspirations by describing the extraordinary design latitude offered by architectural precast concrete color and texture combinations alone. The hundreds of samples within this guide are but a small fraction of the almost unlimited color and texture combinations possible by varying concrete ingredients and finishes.
Below are bullet points that will be beneficial in using The PCI Color and Texture Selection Guide:
The photographs serve as a visual guide for searching and selecting the approximate color and texture for your architectural precast project.
The photographs are numbered and arranged from light to dark colors. Most of the samples have dual finishes and each finish is numbered separately.
The architect should contact a local PCI Certified architectural precast concrete producer as early as possible in the design stage, in order to address mix and finish costs, as well as to discuss the precast quality that particular colors and textures are apt to generate.
Due to different material sources and / or varying manufacturing techniques, the architect should not expect that selecting a photographic sample will insure exact matching by all precast concrete producers. Actual concrete samples will be required to confirm that desired colors and textures can be achieved.
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The choice of appropriate aggregates and textures, combined with well-conceived production and erection details, can achieve a wide variety of design objectives.
It is recommended that the architect contact local PCI-Certified architectural precast concrete producers in the early design stages and throughout the development of the contract documents. This will provide optimum utility and quality of the product and its installation at minimum construction cost.
The PCI Color and Texture Guide includes almost 600 samples of precast colors and textures. Below is a small look at the varying options available for architectural precast.
