Decorative Concrete Council Unveils Award Winners of Annual International Competition

The Decorative Concrete Council of the American Society of Concrete Contractors, St. Louis, Missouri, has announced the winners of its 15th Annual Decorative Concrete International Awards.

The DCC’s WOW Award (best in show), in the category of vertical & facades over 5,000 square feet, was presented to Bomanite of Southeast Asia, Manilla, Philippines for the Manila Zoo rehabilitation project. The project was started during the height of the pandemic, which presented significant challenges with all the lockdown and movement restrictions. Moreover, the Manilla Zoo is an existing zoo, so the animals had to be transferred one section at a time and rehabilitation work was completed in phases.

For this project, Bomanite of Southeast Asia used a GFRC Pre Cast installation to simulate bamboo using a combination of customized yellow based color hardeners and stains to create the natural bamboo finish. The fabrication workshop was done inside the Zoo complex and used silicon molds and casted, natural bamboo. The result of the GFRC Precast installation created a durable natural looking finish façade installation that covered most of the animal enclosures, fences and gates.

To see additional first-place winners, visit ascconline.org.