Vancouver Forest is a unique 900-unit residential development located about 30 minutes from Beijing’s international airport. The site has been designed to replicate a mini-Vancouver neighborhood complete with west-side Vancouver-style housing, natural landscaping and lots of trees.
The Canadian style of housing is very popular in China with Chinese wanting to live in ‘North American’ style of housing without having to move to Canada or the USA.
The project was won with the collaboration of our Beijing office, the Kryton head office in Vancouver and the Canada Mortgage and Housing Corp (CMHC). One of CMHC’s mandates is to promote Canadian construction companies internationally. In addition to the Kryton BC connection the project was designed by Vancouver based architects, Ekistics and features BC wood in the framing.
Krystol Internal Membrane (KIM) admixture was used to waterproof the below grade areas of the homes. The team also used Kryton’s Krystol Waterstop System for joints to ensure a fully tanked basement. The homes are roughly 4,300 square feet and sell for more than $1.9 million.
Planning for the project began in 2002 and the homes are being built in phases with an estimated completion date in 2015. Since November 2010 approximately four containers of Kryton products have been used to waterproof this project.
Krystol Internal Membrane (KIM) is a hydrophilic crystalline admixture used to create permanently waterproof concrete.
Krystol Waterstop Treatment is a cementitious crystalline slurry that is applied to horizontal and vertical construction joints to provide additional waterproofing protection, and protect rebar from corrosion.
Krystol Waterstop Grout is a crystalline grout used to create an internal or external waterstop at construction joints, pipe penetrations, tie-holes and control joints.
Krytonite Swelling Waterstop is a synthetic rubber waterstop that uses swelling pressure to seal concrete construction joints and stop water.
Kryton’s Crack Inducing Waterstop is specially engineered to produce a waterproof crack control joint.
The Krystol Waterstop System is used to permanently waterproof concrete construction joints, pipe penetrations, tie holes and control joints. The Krystol Waterstop System works where other waterstops routinely fail. Kryton is the only integral waterproofing company that offers fully integrated concrete waterproofing solutions. [more_toggle title="How…
