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Artcrete Faux Brick Stenciled Concrete
Artcrete, the north Louisiana company that manufactures Faux Brick Stenciled Concrete, helped several thousand south Louisiana students displaced by Hurricane Katrina return to their home schools this year in new, stronger classrooms.
The new classrooms, built by Fibrebond Corp. in Minden, La., are made of precast concrete using Artcrete products and processes that lend brick-like beauty to the exterior.
A total of 168 precast classrooms were delivered in time for the new school year to five south Louisiana schools. Factory-outfitted with carpeting, lighting, air conditioning, plumbing and other amenities, the 768-square-foot rooms are made of steel-reinforced concrete, with exterior walls that are eight inches thick. Erected in a third of the time that traditional construction takes, with no on-site construction, they can be expected to last 50 to 75 years. Relatively maintenance-free, the precast classrooms are fire-resistant and aesthetically pleasing, closely resembling traditional brick schoolrooms.
With the Artcrete finishes, classrooms can be designed to match the existing architecture of a school. A variety of exterior finishes are available to blend the old with the new.
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