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The calendar has flipped to the month of love. With Valentine’s Day just around the corner, we’ve been thinking a lot about love. Our love of precast concrete that is. And we want you to love precast concrete as much as we do.

When determining which cladding option is right for your project, consider the advantages of designing with architectural precast panels. Precast wall panels grant you the ability to have:

Virtually endless finish and design options
At ICP, we offer a variety of high-end architectural finishes, custom form liners, Graphic Concrete, brick, and more. Check out some of our finishes here. Plus, we are PCI AA certified, which represents the most highly complex certification level. This certification is for producers of highly complex shapes and has the tightest tolerances ever required.
Strength and durability
Precast concrete provides excellent protection against high winds, storm surges and flying debris.
Minimal long-term maintenance
Minimal maintenance provides substantial long term cost savings. Precast is a long-lasting, high performance material that will last decades.
Superior quality control with strict guidelines
Precast panels are produced in our PCI-Certified plant under strict quality controls ensuring a uniformly high-quality facade.
Fast-track installation on site, plus year-round production and installation
Precast concrete’s speed of erection and ability to be produced and erected year-round shortens project schedules.
LEED certification capabilities
Precast concrete contributes to LEED certification in a variety of ways. It minimally disrupts the site (area and time); increases open area when multi-level parking structures are used; reduces the heat-island effect because of concrete’s light color; improves energy efficiency and thermal comfort; reuses and recycles formwork, keeping materials out of the landfill; and more.

There you have it - six concrete reasons to love precast. Interested in learning more about how precast concrete walls and cladding can benefit your next project? Contact our team at info@internationalconcrete.com.

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Building On Your Vision is only made possible by you, our clients. For 38 years, you have trusted us to help with your projects. Each project offers its own unique goals and opportunities. When you partner with International Concrete Products for your precast project, we work side-by-side with you through design, manufacturing and construction. It’s what we’ve done on projects all across the country. Will yours be next?

Experience. Quality. Dedication. Details. Reliability. From bidding to design to pre-production to erection to close out, that’s what you’ll get. We enjoy Building on Your Vision. When we take on a project, we are fully committed to seeing it through.

Our first step is ensuring we have all available details on a project to put your customized bid together. The more information provided, the more accurate we can be. Not sure exactly what you want? Our team is happy to share its expertise to assist you in executing your vision. We know cost and schedule is front of mind. Our experienced team is able to provide value engineering ideas to help maintain design concept while addressing budget. Additionally, we are able to provide alternative design options to help improve the schedule, for example, looking at time-required for full brick versus thin brick.

Once we have been awarded a project, we get to work on your drawings to send out for approval by you. Once you have approved the drawings, the production process begins on your custom precast pieces. Quality is top of mind during the production process, with no detail too small. We’ll go brick by brick on your wall panel to ensure everything is lined up properly and finished to the highest standards of our PCI AA certification.

When you partner with International Concrete Products, you have a dedicated project manager at your fingertips to ensure quick, efficient communication, as well as schedule and budget monitoring to address any issues that may arise. Precast components are delivered to your jobsite just on time and the project manager ensures proper installation, again addressing any issues that may arise. The project manager will also collaborate with general contractors and architects to complete punch list items, ensuring we meet your, and our, high standards for precast and service.

Our goal is to deliver custom precast concrete solutions that are built to last. We take pride in our upfront and honest approach to projects, and keeping them on schedule and on budget. How can we help you build on your vision?

We’d be honored to work on your upcoming projects with you. For more information on how International Concrete Products can help you meet your project goals, please contact us at info@internationalconcrete.com.