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Guangzhou International Finance Center (Guangzhou West Tower), located at the core of Pearl River New City, southwestern financial business district, is a landmark on the axis of Guangzhou. The project has high quality requirements for the underground parking lot renovation. After the stringent performance comparison of all the major brands by the owner and main contractor, they confirmed to use OPTIMIX products. The application was challenging, since the Four Seasons Hotel continued to operate as normal above the underground renovation area, such that the construction noise, generated by floor grinding machines, had to be maintained to a minimal level so as not to affect the operation of the hotel. Accordingly, the applicator had to manually pre-treat the uneven surface of the existing ground before the application of self leveling underlayment. After several days of effort, the renovation was successfully completed. Although the application surface was treated manually, the OPTIMIX product performed well and was finished to level and smooth, without experiencing any problems evident in traditional floor screeds, such as lamination, weakness, powdering, etc. Product used: •  OPTIMIX SF818 Self-Leveling Underlayment

Silver Tower, located in the center of Shanghai's bustling Huaihai Road shopping district, is an integrated property development including a 28 storey service apartment tower and a 16 storey office tower, together with a 5 storey shopping arcade. The property was acquired by Maple Tree Group of Singapore in 2011. The original waterproofing material on the rooftop was a traditional sheet membrane type, which had degraded with age, leading to the interfaces becoming delaminated. During the typhoon season of 2012, the buildings faced numerous leaking problems due to the failure of the existing sheet membrane waterproofing. The property managers of Silver Tower sought an effective replacement system to achieve a secure remedial solution for the waterproofing. After a series of technical assessments on the material’s properties and performance, they chose an OPTIMIX high performance system to completely replace the existing waterproofing system. The owner and the property management company was wholly satisfied with the outstanding material quality and performance achieved by the OPTIMIX system. Product Used: •  OPTIMIX WP569 Waterproofing Slurry (Flexible)

Nike Stores in China have been designed and decorated with highly varied and strong visual impact polished floors. The flooring effects were achieved by utilizing Optimix with special application techniques and treating the floor with a special polishing method. The finished floor achieved an overall seamless finish, with strong abrasion resistance and high performance quality. By using selected quartz and/or silicon carbide aggregates fillers in the OPTIMIX material, the floor achieved a quality fair-face concrete look as well as a shiny terrazzo appearance. These special finishing qualities and effects have achieved the unique style, design, and durability requirements desired for this commercial floor. Product used: •  OPTIMIX RM780F Repair Mortar (Rapid Setting)

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.