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Jing An Shangri-La, West Shanghai, located within the landmark, Jing An Kerry Center, on Nanjing West Road, occupies the top 28 floors of the 59 storey main building of Jing An Kerry Centre. The fitting out of the hotel was designed by Hirsch Bedner Associates from Atlanta, USA. The hotel has 508 luxury guest rooms fitted out in an elegant and modern style. Toilets are decorated using extra white Turkish marble and Italian Sicis artistic glass mosaic tiles. OPTIMIX provided a series of high-performance cementitious adhesives for the 508 guest rooms to perfectly demonstrate the elegant and distinguished style of the extra white Turkish marble and the uniqueness of the artistic glass mosaic tiles. Products used •  OPTIMIX TA318 Marble Adhesive and •  OPTIMIX TG410 Tile Grout (High Performance).

ZCB is the first zero carbon building in Hong Kong which was developed by CIC in collaboration with Hong Kong Government. ZCB is a signature project to show eco-design and technologies to local and international markets. The project, boasted Ronald Lu & Partners as the lead consultant and Gammon Construction Limited as the management contractor. The project, including design, application, and material selections, has been certified a Platinum rating in the Provisional Assessment of BEAM Plus (Building Environmental Assessment Method). To achieve the strict requirement of Volatile Organic Compounds (VOC), the architects chose OPTIMIX's environmentally friendly specialty dry mortars including: •  OPTIMIX BP126 Base Plaster, •  OPTIMIX SC228 Skimcoat, •  OPTIMIX SC273 Skimcoat (Putty for Paint), •  OPTIMIX TA328 Tile Adhesive (Flexible) and •  OPTIMIX TG410 Tile Grout.

L’Avenue, located in the centre of the Shanghai Hongqiao Foreign Business District, was the latest joint investment of Louis Vuitton Moët Hennessy (LVMH) Group and STDM (STDM) China Holdings Limited. The project consists of a 28-storey high-rise office tower and a 4-storey commercial complex. Total height of the building is 134 meters, with a total investment of 0.5 billion US dollars. The design of the building was awarded the Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design (LEED) Gold certification from the U.S. Green Building Council, marking the high standard of the building’s environmental sustainability. OPTIMIX recommended and provided a series of high performance environmentally friendly specialty dry mortars for use in the project, for fixing artificial stone, the natural marble to the floors of the office tower and the artificial marble for all washroom floors. L’Avenue was designed by the famous Japanese architect, Mr. Aoki Jun. The external structure is a hyperboloid streamlining concrete structural design using ceramic tiles as decoration. From outside, L’Avenue looks like a lady’s skirt that reveals a dynamic modernism style. OPTIMIX was also involved in the design of the high performance external rendering and tiling system for the façade to provide a durable and sustainable tiling finish. The final system proposed by OPTIMIX was approved by both the designer and the developer. OPTIMIX provided a truly durable, high-performance wall and tiling system for the developer, architects and consultants. Products used: •  OPTIMIX TA338 Tile Adhesive (High Performance),  •  OPTIMIX TA313 Tile Adhesive (Semi-Flexible), and  •  OPTIMIX TA328 Tile Adhesive (Flexible).

On 2nd November 2012, the Urban Construction & Environmental Engineering Faculty of Chongqing University organized the "Green Building Actions" Forum in conjunction with the presentation of the 2012 Scholarship Award Ceremony. The chairperson of the Forum was Mr. Dong Meng Neng, Chief of Chongqing Municipal Commission of Urban-Rural Development, Energy Saving Department. Optimix’s Technical Director, Ir Raymond Wan, who is a BEAM Professional (Building Environmental Assessment Method) was invited to make a presentation based on his technical knowledge and extensive materials experience in Hong Kong, on green aspects. The title of his speech was “Hong Kong Green Buildings and Green Building Materials Practice”, which was well received by the audience including government officials, university lecturers and students due to the significant difference in ideas, approach and actual practice on handling green construction in Hong Kong, compared with Mainland China.

At 39 Conduit Road, Hong Kong, a long lasting high performance solution was required for tiling the beautiful artwork patterned wall, made up of small size marble mosaics. The existing concrete retaining wall substrate exhibited serious signs of water seepage and the location was exposed to a relatively humid environment. To ensure proper bonding of the marble mosaics to the wall, as well as ensuring the finished surface will remain free from efflorescence, the Project Manager looked for a high performance and durable tiling solution to achieve the required finished quality for this prestigious residential project. Optimix provided a workable and high performance solution to address the existing site conditions and the desired quality requirements. The project used Optimix materials to resist the backing seepage water and to control the possible moisture movement in the rendering and tiling layers; together with an Optimix render layer, with a target bonding strength of over 1.0MPa; and an Optimix tile adhesive system to provide extra adhesion and flexibility to accommodate any possible movement, as well as anti-efflorescence properties. This Optimix system is one of the best solutions available in the market to provide guaranteed and long-lasting performance of over 1.0 MPa in each layer within the system. Products used:   OPTIMIX WP515 Waterproofing Slurry OPTIMIX WP533 Semi-Flexible Waterproofing Slurry OPTIMIX BP168 Premium Base Plaster OPTIMIX TA338S High Performance Tile Adhesive (C2TES2) and OPTIMIX TG410ES Tile Grout