PLASTBAU® METAL

Plastbau® Metal is a self-standing formwork panel up to 2 meter long, with a variable geometry and built-in thermal insulation to build floors, to be reinforced and cast.‎ Its high performances depend on the structural joint between foam polystyrene and galvanized metal profiles, duly drilled and customized shaped.‎ Such a perfect mix between polistyrene mass and internal metal inserts allow panels, even though very light (kg/m2 7), to become self-standing and stiff enough to support initial loads, such as fresh concrete, core grids, workers, etc.‎ Plastbau® Metal allows to easy replacing old-fashioned floors with no more weight added to structures and foundations, extremely easy to install as each unit can be manually moved.‎ It is possible furthermore, to optimize thicknesses as the installations can be all fitted inside the panel longitudinal holes, thus cutting the floor intrados thickness to the bare minimum.‎ Matching and jointing the panels by seat lasting (male/female), a beam is created, where to host core grids (right, stumps and shaped), to be included with a Plastbau® Metal casting, getting rid of thermal bridges.‎ The PLASTBAU® building system consists of expanded polystyrene elements with a dual function - formwork for the containment of concrete castings in the first phase - high permanent insulation in the second phase The PLASTBAU® system consists of two types of formwork panels: - PLASTBAU® WALL 3 - PLASTBAU® METAL SLABS