An explanation of fair-faced concrete, given by a civil engineer, could comfortably end up as an attempt to precisely define the principles of the present 'state of the art' or the 'findings'. The explanation of fair-faced concrete in contractually suitable technical terms is an important skill in everyday construction, but the result is above all banal. It ultimately obtains and denies its value via this banality, to which it is obligated by the stringency of its use as a technical language with coordinated terminology.

Like any creation, however, fair-faced concrete is initially a concept, a creative thought, which in its origin is not restricted and described by technology and usually comes into being without considering boundary conditions in terms of material and manufacture.