With better, faster and safer formwork available, designing for the formwork is a crucial component to ensuring the success of an economical concrete construction project.

Concrete Concrete Equipment & Products Forms Concrete Formwork Alternatives Save Time, Money and Labor Concrete formwork that offers an alternative to lumber continues to infiltrate the market.

The idea began when doctoral student Lotte Scheder-Bieschin developed Unfold Form, a foldable, reusable formwork system that makes laying concrete much easier.

This was facilitated through the use of a novel formwork system consisting of a net of steel cables and a polymer fabric stretched into a reusable scaffolding structure.

Canadian designer Omer Arbel has created a home in British Columbia with expressive pillars made from concrete poured into fabric.