ADVANTAGES OF ºBLOCK MASONRY CONSTRUCTION
1. Applicable for underground structures, outside walls and separations, canals sewage constructions, water and petroleum tanks, swimming pools, agricultural facilities, etc.
2. Impermeable to most known liquids from both negative and positive sides without additional known protections.
3. Resists to Heat/Cold fluxes and provides stable temperature on the inner surface of outside wall and doesn't allow the formation of water condensation and biological new-growths.
4. Cost per square unit of wall is less at least at 3 times compared with cinder block’s wall.
No more complications with standard rebar installation, pouring of mortar into voids of regular cinder blocks, waterproofing, expensive pargeting and painting of masonry, which take tremendous amount of labor time and supplementary materials and equipment.
Now it is just ºBLOCK and KALMATRON® MORTAR !
COST COMPARISON OF ºBLOCK WITH THE STANDARD CMU WITH WATERPROOF
The cost comparison made for ºBLOCK with standard cinder block with waterproofing and pargeting. Standard reinforcing by rebar and monolithic concrete are applied for cinder block in accordance with existing technology.
COMPARISON OF ºBLOCK WITH CINDER BLOCK, APPLIED IN A WALL WITH WATERPROOF
ºBLOCK is uncompetitive as the most reliable and inexpensive CMU, as shown in the table above.
Some theoretical issues are shown in an attachment "Article ºBLOCK."
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