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News Release from: H+H Celcon | Subject: Celcon Hi-7, high-strength aircrete blocks
Edited by the Buildingtalk Editorial
Team on 07 September 2005
Celcon lightweight solution cuts costs
Celcon's Hi-7, high-strength aircrete blocks cuts costs for luxury Beckenham development.
Building a terrace of 13 luxury town houses sounds fairly straightforward, but when it has to be built over the development's basement car park it becomes a more demanding project The terrace at Brunswick Place, Beckenham had to be built on a reinforced concrete transfer deck which spanned the car park
This article was originally published on Buildingtalk on 7 Sep 2005 at 8.00am (UK)
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With high ceilings so typical of the Regency style of architecture employed on the project, this meant the deck had to support a substantial load comprising party and external walls up to 15m high.
The solution was to specify Celcon Hi-7, high-strength aircrete blocks.
This reduced the deadweight the deck had to carry, so reducing the amount of reinforcement in the deck and saving money.
In addition the use of aircrete provided excellent thermal and acoustic insulation, an important consideration for town houses.
Celcon Hi-7 blocks have a compressive strength of 7.N/mm2 (7.3 N/mm2under European Standards BS EN 771-4:2003), thermal conductivity of 0.19 W/mK and a density of 750 kg/m3.
They are specially designed for multi-storey construction or walls or piers under heavy vertical loads.
Developer Nick McCormack of Springtree Properties was very happy with the performance of the blocks.
Apart from the cost savings they were easier to handle than aggregate blocks, which helped to speed the construction process.
The impressive homes at Brunswick Terrace are the epitome of quality and luxury.
The exteriors feature high resistance, maintenance free render with Regency style porticos, coping and quoin corner stones with window surrounds of architectural stonework.
Inside the homes have four bedrooms, two ensuite and one family bathroom, three reception rooms, library, contemporary hand-crafted Italian kitchen/breakfast room, terrace and roof garden.
The homes are expected to sell for seven figure sums.
Architects were Clague Architects of Ashford.
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