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Client Need:
The water feature designer needed an extremely skilled crew to install a complicated natural rock water feature at the entrance to the museum.
Solution:
CHI not only had the natural rock experience, but the experience using shotcrete that was used for the caltite. CHI was also willing to try a new product, caltite, for the waterproofing of the basin.
Results:
The Wildlife Experience Fountain is extremely significant for being the first project using the concrete additive caltite in a shotcrete application. The caltite is used as a waterproofing for the feature; it renders the concrete impermeable. The structural caltite slab is constructed on top of a void form and caissons. Forty tons of boulders that make up the fountain rest on this void form and caissons. Installation and application of the large natural boulders is done in such a tight formation that it gives the appearance of monolithic exposed bedrock instead of non-related stacked rock. Also noteworthy is the radial pattern of cobble in the lower section, which is hand-placed with grout on top of the caltite basin. Square cut black granite is also used as an architectural weir element for the natural rock feature.
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General Contractor:
Saunders Construction
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Landscape Architect:
Civitas
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Landscape Contractor:
Valley Crest
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Caltite Supplier:
Glacier Northwest, Inc.
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Completed:
August 2002
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Lincoln and Peoria
Parker, CO
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