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In order to enhance the overall landscape effect, fair-faced concrete was used on tunnel walls, wave walls and the buildings on the artificial islands of Hongkong-Zhuhai-Macao Bridge. As fair-faced concrete was not much used in China, the builders had no much experience in construction of the fair -faced concrete.In order to ensure the quality of concrete construction and the project goals, systematic full-scale model testing was carried out on site to assess and ascertain the technology for fair faced concrete construction and various links affecting the external appearance. Through the systematic full scale model tests, various parameters in the process of construction were achieved and transformed into quantitative indicators to guide the construction on site. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]