Featured Contractor: Chris McMahon
Architectural Concrete Design (ACD)
3001 New Falls Road
Levittown, PA
1.877.843.4373
Project Name: The Shops at Saucon Valley
Stanbery Development and Poag & McEwen Lifestyle
Centers formed a joint venture to create Lehigh Valley,
Pennsylvania’s first and only lifestyle center.
ACD took on the challenge of creating upscale, yet
classic paving for the storefronts, walkways, crosswalks
and feature areas to make The Shops at Saucon Valley
Pennsylvania’s flagship to the lifestyle center concept.
ACD utilized various textures from L. M. Scofield Company's LITHOTEX® Pavecrafters® line of imprinting tools and embossing skins, including an old world
Limestone - European Fan pattern, as well as
Fractured Slate and
Rock Salt embossing skins that create seamless textures to borders and featured areas. These seamless texture mats allowed
ACD to create the look and feel of natural stones,
which had been custom cut to occupy larger areas
where natural stones would not have been appropriate
or even possible.
ACD took advantage of LITHOCHROME® Color Hardener
which takes standard concrete mixes well beyond their
normal durability and life expectancy by the
introduction of ground aggregates -- namely, silica sand,
to its pigmented cements. These color hardeners
increase the surfaces durability and abrasion resistance
upwards of three times that of typical concrete
applications.
The colors selected were hand picked to give the
warmth and pedestrian friendly environment this
lifestyle center required to flatter all who visit with its
extraordinary appeal.
By using a base color hardener of Steadman Buff, and
flashing a reddish brown Russet color hardener, ACD
took the opportunity to showcase their talent and
experience of being one of the largest and premier
installers in the country. A liquid release or “bond
break” was utilized to allow the newly constructed
storefronts to be a dust free environment and allowing
the flashing of the color hardeners to give an antiqued
or mottled effect, which shines through quite nicely and
with great success.
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Project details/specifications:
• 3500 PSI AE concrete with fiber reinforcement
• Compacted stone base of no less than 4” of 3\4” / 2B stone
• Concrete thicknesses are 4” – 5” in pedestrian areas
• Concrete thicknesses are 6” in vehicular areas
• Concrete joints were provided with both saw cut and hand tooled jointing
• ADA regulations were met using polymer composite truncated domes
• Anti-spawl agents were applied to further resist salts and chemicals
• Very rigid concrete practices were followed to create consistency which
included slump control, concrete testing and Contractor qualifications.
• Paving selection was made by the requirement for a low maintenance
installation with very high durability and life expectancy.
• Scofield and their product line are industry leaders in which this
project had the highest degree of confidence to provide leading edge
technology with concrete stamping tools, seamless embossing skins, concrete color
hardeners and concrete sealers to protect and provide stain resistant surfaces to
this project.
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