This was one of the reasons we killed Ceaușescu some 34 years ago. He implemented this precast concrete slabs method in 70's. This standardization affected urban architecture, influenced furniture production, appliances so on and therefore during communist gilded ages you can move from an apartment to another with no major issues. Standardization was and is even more in our days the key for economical efficiency.
Do not buy these IBS bullcrap. The structure will be very weak and maintenance is very hard. When a precast panel cracks, it will crack the whole thing not just one section. You have to demolish a whole wall to fix or add something. In the long term, it costs more to have these pre cast structure than traditional brick and concrete. The French historical structures withstand the test of time because they were built with brick and concrete.
💯 I agree with you. Cannot be fused together properly and as such will teach the user an extremely valuable lesson in the event of an earthquake and possibly typhoon. Even if the backfired soil absorbs enough water as it passes against the foot of the basement wall it can certainly push it inward, this causing the upper floors to collapse. It is only time before I’m proven right after a small trimmer takes down a hospital that was built in this way and after the demise of hundreds.
It is a high quality system, but suited for only a few conditions. In my country IBS is used, but mostly not for cellars, because cellars are floating in groundwater here, so a building structure needs to be heavier than the floating power of water. And the precast element joints and seams need to be waterproof or the cellar will let groundwater seeps in. If they use precast cellar walls, they often use bituminous roofing at the whole outside of the cellar to keep the water out.
Guys...time is money,and from my expirience, working in Germany fot the past five years , this systems, although 15- 20 % more expesinsiv3 initialy, payoff in lower labour costs and saved time. And for technical part of it, they are wayyyy above anything u can find as common ways of contruction in US. Just check the enginering heritage of De.
This modern basement construction technology is truly pushing the boundaries of innovation in house construction. The level of ingenuity and skill demonstrated by the workers is just incredible. It's amazing to see how technology is revolutionizing the way we build homes. Consider exploring the Buildovate CRM for assistance in managing construction projects similar to these!
I worked on a precast home development project in Deptford, London, UK back in the early 1970s. Units were fabricated in Basildon north of the Thames and were trucked to site, where I drove a crawler mounted tower crane and part of a team of 5 persons, we erected two story Maisonet's, stacked two high. The end walls were a stone dash finish while the front and back walls were a brick tile finish. The Maisonet's were built in blocks of twenty or so units. Parking lots and green areas were between each block, so children had space to play. The project was built on what had been a run down two up two down terraced housing, damaged in the bombing of WWII and neglected, the only buildings left standing was three pubs.
This is a bad example. Reinforced precast concrete frame is the only technology than can endure 9 points earthquake. Everything should have been tied tightly. Even the foundation is not properly made. Welded mesh is disgrace.
So you can use fans in tandem with dehumidifiers to dry concrete faster. 🤔 Now make sure the fans filter the air getting blown on the concrete. Yes the quality of the air blowing on the concrete matters. So using fans that filter the air is best to dry the concrete. And then using the dehumidifier to take the moisture out of the air around the concrete. And yes, you would have to hang them over. The concrete and around the concrete are optimally effective. You can use a crane to hold the dehumidifier over the concrete. Generative AI is experimental. Info quality may vary. Yes, you can use fans to dry concrete. You can place fans in the affected room and close the doors. The air movement will help dry out the concrete. You can also use a dehumidifier in tandem with fans to help draw out the air humidity and excess water quickly. The fastest way to dry a concrete floor is to use a fan that blows heat on the surface of the concrete floor. However, you should follow the instructions of the process and give your wet concrete floors the exact time they need to dry. Rushing the process may reduce the concrete quality. Concrete drying in a certain environment varies depending on how hot, cold, humid, or dry it is. You can also check out this video: Dehumidification and Drying Concrete: Hurrying Up the Wait www.wagnermeters.com/concrete-moisture-test/concrete-info/dehumidification-and-drying-concrete/ You wanna put this in place as you're using the vibrator to move out air and moisture upward, condensing the concrete. So you don't wait till you finish smoothing it. The process starts with the vibrator and you apply. The humidifier, but you got understand you need to be very good about smoothing it behind the vibrator. Now you could use some kind of water suction of excess water will smoothing the concrete to remove excess water as well.
I like the idea of lego-like predesigned block staking construction. It will reduce a large amount of money effort labors... looks so efficient. I don't know why construction companies in my homeland wouldn't give it a try. It's the utmost modern technology in fields of construction and logistics for housing.
Here in the Philippines you must be a big construction company with your own crane and trucks for hauling and placing these concrete wall panels. Otherwise the cost of renting these equipments will eat a big chunk of the budget and the project will even cost more than on site building. Mobile crane rentals here in the Philippines cost more than 100$ per hour depending on the size of the crane.
The answer to your question lies in your comment. It is predesigned, so most installation (electricity piping and switch box or and socket boxes) needs to be fixed inside the concrete and this means there is hardly any room for change after the precast elements are fabricated. If you buy this home and want the light switch or a wall outlet on a different location, it’ll cost a lot of money to do this. In the US you just open the paper wall and relocate the wiring, in concrete you need to mill, grind or saw in a concrete wall to the new location, fix the piping, seal it and cover it with stucco. This is much more expensive. I know, because I bought a house where all the sockets (or wall outlets) were about 4 feet above the floor (in full view) and I wanted all sockets at 1 feet above the floor (out of view), in all rooms except kitchen and bathroom (where all sockets are at countertop height). I didn’t have the tools and materials to do it myself and it costs me about €10,000 to let it all done, which is about $11,000.
😂😂😂😂😂😂 yeah this is the way new construction is done. 80 years ago homes were built to last 100 year’s when made of brick and maintained they go 200 to 250 easy and longer, new homes say built to last a lifetime which might be 60 years.
Can a multi family apartment building be constructed this way ? What , if any, are the limitations of building this way ? Is there any cost savings to be had by building this way, or is it simply a faster way to bulld ?
Ich würde das jetzt nicht wirklich als Neuheit bezeichnen. So wird Deutschland seit 50 Jahren gebaut. Alle Decken sind in Deutschland in jedem Haus grundsätz aus Stahlbeton, auch die Bodenplatte. Bei Industriegebäude werden sehr häufig fertige Betonwände eingesetzt, um ein Stockwerk schnell zu erstellen. Das ist ganz normal.
It was like a lot of a time ago in a USSR.. It seems that all the best of USSR are going to US and Europe... and why you don't like Russian if you are using their ways to build?
Gotta have a foundation drain around the footing of the basement. The pipe and the rock have to be encased in a non woven geofabric. You British are so lazy.