ABOUT
The company’s comprehensive services cover the detail design, manufacture, delivery and, where appropriate, the installation of architectural precast concrete units. These are supported by the following specialist resources.
WHY SWBV
SWBV is Committed to Building the Future.
At SWBV, our purpose is to provide durable and reliable concrete panels to support your projects. We focus on delivering quality products that fit your needs, ensuring that each panel contributes to the success of your construction. We aim to be a helpful partner throughout the entire process.
TOTAL VERTICAL INTEGRATION
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This means one project, one subcontractor. With: R&D facility, welding and galvanization, calculation and design, transportation logistic, installation, etc.
versatility
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SWBV’s experts offer versatile solutions that will surely meet the most imaginative design specifications. a virtually endless choice of materials can be combined.
a visionary team
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Through our own lab and R&D facilities, we design new products and solutions to revolutionize the world of concrete.
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DESIGN
An in-house drawing office with networked CAD facility running Autocad and Revit for BIM software packages for the preparation of general arrangements drawings and their development into builders work and workshop drawings and details.
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Mockups
Prototype assessments verify aesthetics, and structural efficiently.
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manufacture
In addition to the employment of an established workforce of skilled operatives, the company operates a purpose-built and equipped factory with computerized batching and mixing plant and overhead cranes serving its casting shops and storage areas.
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DELIVERY
The company operates a fleet of low and semi-low trailers with “A” frame superstructures and standard-height trailers for the safe and efficient delivery of precast concrete units. Located in Lachine right on Highway 20 makes us an ideal supplier as goods can get on site for local projects without incurring storage costs or extra surcharges for trailers.
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installation
Under the direction and control of our own full-time site managers and operating in accordance with our risk-assessed project-specific method statements, we retain the services of specialist sub-contractors for the installation of our precast panels, for the subsequent application of joint sealants and for any associated activities at site. These associated activities can include the supply and fixing of insulation, fire-stopping, anti-graffiti coatings and such-like.
SWBV is Focused on Shaping Today’s Building Solutions
the precast concrete units we specialise in providing are termed architectural, because their shapes and sizes, as well as their colours and textures, are produced to satisfy the specific design, appearance and performance requirements of individual building projects.
Options for the color of our precast concrete units range from white to black through the appropriate selection of the aggregate, sand and cement for each designed mix with, if also necessary, the addition of a cement pigment. Whilst frequently specified as reconstructed stone with a lightly etched surface to resemble the fine rubbed finish of a natural limestone (e.g. Portland stone), options for their surface finishes more widely range from the very smooth, achieved by machine grinding and polishing, through to coarser exposed aggregates textures by various methods of washing or tooling.
The precast concrete panels may incorporate veneers of limestones, sandstones and granites in the form of natural stone faced precast concrete panels. They may also incorporate fired clay products in the form of Brick and Tile Faced precast concrete panels.
Typically provided as wall panels for the external cladding of new buildings, with each unit individually supported by and laterally restrained to the building’s structural frame, there are circumstances where they may otherwise be stacked from ground level. Alternatively, they may be designed to act as load-bearing elements within the building’s steel or concrete frame, as Structural Balcony, Column and Beam Units that are similarly intended to serve as visual features.
Although usually specified as single-skin panels, with the option that they can be supplied with factory-fixed insulation to their back faces, our finished and faced precast concrete units may otherwise be provided as double-skin Sandwich Panels with a core of insulation. In addition to their inherent thermal mass, their inner skin is often designed to act as a structural wall element within the building’s construction.
It has become increasing evident, over the many years we have been providing architectural precast concrete units, that the ranges of precast cladding finishes and facings are generally unrelated to individual sectors of the building industry.
Reconstructed stone finished, stone-faced and brick faced precast concrete units can, for example, be as readily specified for commercial or civic office schemes as for high-rise residential, retail or leisure developments or otherwise for schools, hospitals, churches, etc. Our extensive portfolio of completed projects describes some of the varied and diverse applications of our architectural precast concrete units to date.
It is on this basis that we would welcome the opportunity to assess how the direct and incidental benefits of precast cladding construction can be optimised for the benefit of your next project and consequently to offer our early input on the key considerations of appearance and construction methodology as well as programme and costing matters. We, therefore, invite your enquiry.
Reach Us
Get in touch with us for any inquiries or project details. Our team is here to assist you with all your concrete needs.
795 George V, Lachine, qc. H8S 2R9
(514)-307-2222
(514)-307-0120
info@swbv.ca
