- Key Benefits
- Proven in Europe over 30 years
- Satisfies UK Building Regulations
- Replaces concrete blocks, timber and light steel frames
- Outstanding thermal insulation and vapour permeability
- Thermal mass minimum 96kg/m2
- Precision ground/planed blocks mean 1mm bed joints
- Environmentally friendly and sustainable
- Outstanding fire protection
- Low life cycle costs
- Faster construction, earlier completion
- Virtually dry-fix approx 95% less water than traditional masonry
- Fast setting joints mean virtually unrestricted build heights
- Little need for movement joints to restrict shrinkage and cracking.
- Typically 20-30% MARSS recycled content
- Reduced energy consumption in manufacture
- Innumerable interconnected pores and web pattern aid thermal performance
- Breathable structure allows diffusion of water vapour
- Ground to +/- mm tolerance on block heights aids fast construction
- Sharp edges removed during grinding process
- Interlocking vertical joints, no mortar required
- Typical compressive strength 10N/mm2
- Intrinsically fire resistant
- Good acoustic resistance
- Life expectancy >150 years
- Green Guide rating applied for. A + expected
Early finishing - Low weather dependency
- Complete system plus prefabricated wall panels
- Porotherm blocks comply with BS EN 771-1:2003
- Less is more
- Less water, less mess, less storage space
- Less mortar = Less dermal risk
- Less weight per block = Lower risk of RSS
- Typical block weight 11kg
- Less build time, less cost, more quality, more value
- http://porothermuk.co.uk/media/141/other/bineK8NMEaH.pdf