Two-layer Factory-Made Exterior Panel for Low-Rise Housing Construction

The annual growth in the volume of individual housing construction (IHC) opens up new opportunities for using industrial methods of housing construction. The obvious source of volume growth is the production capacities of house-building plants and reinforced concrete structures factories, which today have been preserved, operate and have underutilized reserves. However, the products produced by these enterprises are mainly intended for the construction of multi-storey, apartment buildings. The use of these products for the construction of one-two storey houses requires scientific and practical rethinking. The same is required by the construction market, which is constantly expanding due to the appearance of new materials and products, including facade finishing materials. Among such effective finishing materials, the author refers to the use of thermal panels and planken – thin wooden fences, which have not yet been used in panel houses. The author gives an example of factory production of panels of external three-layer walls with subsequent fixing on the facade concrete layer of thermal panels. The inefficiency of this solution is obvious. As an alternative to this solution, the author proposes to produce at the factory two-layer panels of external walls with a bearing concrete layer, insulation and special embedded parts for attaching to them at the construction site various types of hinged facades, including thermal panels and planken. The design of a two-layer external panel of factory production is described in detail, design data, economic efficiency of two-layer panels are given. Evaluation of the construction of multi-storey buildings with the use of two-layer panels of factory-made exterior walls makes it possible to suggests that the use of such panels will create a new product that will find wide application in the practice of individual housing construction.

S.V. NIKOLAEV, Doctor of Sciences (Engineering), Honored Builder of the Russian Federation, Scientific Supervisor (This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.)

JSC “TSNIIEPzhilishcha” – Institute of Comprehensive design of residential and public buildings (JSC “TSNIIEPzhilishcha)(9, bldg. 3, Dmitrovskoye Highway, Moscow, 127434, Russian Federation)

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