Sandwich panel houses: Everything about lightweight buildings

Sandwich panel houses: Everything about lightweight buildings

Types of sandwich panel buildings

Sandwich panels may be used effectively and economically for several building types.

If you are considering using sandwich panels for your building, may it be any of the below listed type, feel free to contact us.

1. Office building

When it comes to office buildings, construction in an urban environment with its limitations is always a key factor.

Compared to a traditionally built office complex, it is a lot easier and faster to build a modern office building with sandwich panels, therefore they are an excellent solution for the above problem.

2. Agricultural facilities

It is exceptionally important that different corrosive or other harmful materials do not cause any damage to agricultural buildings.

This is why there are many types of sandwich panels, categorized by thermal insulation capability and resistance to foreign materials, so that the user can choose the ones best fitting their needs.

3. Industrial hall, factory

Much like with agricultural buildings, durability of the lightweight structure is key for industrial buildings, since machines and other tools of manufacturing need to be protected.

Load bearing structures of industrial halls and factory buildings are made of steel and pre-cast reinforced concrete, serving for many years or decades.

4. Lightweight warehouses

The above discussed advantages also apply to lightweight warehouses – they have exceptionally high resistance, allowing for a versatile application.

Multi-layered sandwich panels provide maximum protection to the stored machines and manufacturing devices. On top of this, panels of fire safety category "A" are fire retardant with stone wool filling.

5. Sport facilities

Large internal spaces and thermal insulation are the most significant attributes for a sport facility, and lightweight structures are perfectly fit to provide these.

However, easy maintenance has special priority here.

One would assume it takes a long time to build such a huge lightweight structure facility, but in fact, it doesn’t. Whatever the building type, lightweight structure construction is always quicker than traditional solutions.

Therefore sandwich panels work flawlessly if you are building a city sport’s hall or a school gymnasium.

6. Sandwich panel workshop, car showroom, outbuilding

Industrial facilities are quite easy to build using sandwich panels, and the same applies to ancillary buildings, too. May those be meeting rooms, conference rooms, offices, or even dining areas, changing rooms or lavatories - construction is simple.

This way all areas can be located close to each other.

7. Garages, car spaces

Safety is, again, the most important aspect when it comes to garages.

With buildings made of fire resistant and weather-proof sandwich panels, one’s valuables can also be stored safely in a workshop, a garage or a car space.

8. Roofs

Physics has thought us early on that warm air rises.

Therefore roofs have an especially important role in thermal insulation. If the roof has no sufficient insulation, most of the heat we spend our money on will vanish through there.

Sandwich panels have excellent thermal insulation characteristics, therefore they offer a perfect solution for the above problem.

9. Lightweight houses

Lightweight houses are incredibly popular in America. As many technological innovations, they have slowly gained recognition in our country, but are becoming better known and more and more individuals tend to work with it.

Since even the biggest halls with 60-70 m span can be safely installed and maintained for decades using sandwich panels, it does worth considering them for lightweight houses.

Advantages of sandwich panel houses

Thermal insulation: Sandwich panel houses have excellent thermal insulation, therefore they retain both cold and warm air. Moreover, there is no need for extra insulation, as it is built in the panel.

Energy efficient: As cold and warm air is retained, the lightweight building becomes considerably more energy efficient.

Economic: As heating becomes a lot more effective, sandwich panels may be considered highly economic on the long run.

Huge selection: You can choose from tens, or even hundreds of different type designs, therefore it is almost guaranteed you will find the sandwich panel house to your liking.

Quick installation: When building with sandwich panels, spectacular results can be shown rapidly. Most of the ready made houses (mostly residential buildings) are manufactured based on accurate designs inside the factory, and are assembled on site.

Durability: Economic operation and quick installation do not necessarily mean poor quality. This is the case with sandwich panels, too. With the current technological development and innovation, quick and economic can also be high quality.

Sufficient weather protection: Durability covers the protection against weather, too. No rain, wind or snow will be able to cause any damage to the sandwich panels.

Fire and water proof: Weather protection naturally involves protecting the sandwich panel houses against water, too. But fire resistance was a key objective as well, therefore lightweight residential buildings, warehouses and factories are all completely safe.

Summary

Sandwich panel houses may also be called lightweight houses, ready made houses or prefabricated houses.

One might assume that something this fast is surely of poor quality and can not be a long term investment.

But this could not be further from the truth. Sandwich panel houses are:

• Durable
• Energy efficient
• Economic
• Versatile, with several available design options
• Fire proof
• Weather proof

And therefore are an excellent investment for a residential building.

Not only houses can be made of sandwich panels, but:

• Office buildings
• Agricultural facilities
• Industrial buildings, halls, factories
• Warehouses
• Sport halls
• Car showrooms
• Garages
• Other roof structures with thermal insulation

Feel free to contact us if you are planning the design or construction of a building of more than 1000 m² area made of sandwich panels, may that be an industrial hall, office building, agricultural building or a car showroom.