The choice of materials when designing a building is important, because it may depend on the cost of manufacturing, but also that the construction is sustainable. In NIBUG‘s article, we tell you how they affect the choice of materials in industrialized construction.
In the transition from traditional construction to industrialized construction we look for different things but there are two that affect the materials:
- Manufacturing: at least in the case of NIBUG, it is offsite. That is to say that we must take into account the measure of the elements we put inside the container, the weight of the materials and the flexibility they have inside it.
- Sustainability: As we have already said, one of the elements we are looking for is to reduce the weight of materials so that they do not affect transport, but the weight affects sustainability: the less weight the structure, the less the foundation will weigh and the less environmental impact You will have in place.
Basic characteristics must have the materials used in the industrialized construction
According to the article by Joan-Lluís Zamora i Mestre on “Building materials in sustainable industrialized construction” in Eco-efficient Architecture, the materials should be:
- Durable over time to avoid greater environmental impact
- Certificates in environmental quality
- Recycled
- Reuse capacity
- Energy saving capacity
- Easy to assemble and disassemble
Other qualities that should be valued would be the cost of maintenance and the ability to reuse. That is, once they have fulfilled their function that they can return to serve for the creation of new materials.
What are the materials in industrialized construction?
One can think at first that the material of the panels that are used in the industrialized constructions could be the pladur. However, this material does not follow any of the characteristics required by materials in this type of fabrication, nor is it an easy to assemble and dismantle material, neither renewable nor returnable.
Materials such as: concrete; steel, which is 80% recyclable; wood, material with little environmental impact but must require certificates and treatments that are sustainable; Glass or different metals such as aluminium or copper.
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