The renovation and retrofit of old residential buildings historic buildings and old industrial plants is a very difficult problem in the construction industry. The biggest challenge is that the original old building structure has very strict floor load limit, and can not bear the weight of new heavy traditional brick walls. Ceramsite Panel Expanded Clay Cement Panel is the perfect solution to solve this long standing problem. The weight of each square meter of Ceramsite Panel is only about 60kg, which is only one fifth of the weight of the 240mm thick traditional brick wall. Even for the old buildings built in the 1970s and 1980s whose original floor design load is only 150kg per square meter, you can safely add new partition walls using Ceramsite Panel without exceeding the load limit. There is no need to carry out expensive and complicated structural reinforcement work. This can reduce the total renovation cost of the old building by more than 40 percent. The dry installation construction method of Ceramsite Panel will not produce a large amount of construction waste and dust. When you renovate the old residential building, you do not need to remove a large amount of old brick wall waste from the building. The construction noise is very low, which will not seriously disturb the normal life of the residents who still live in the building. For the renovation of historic protection buildings, using Ceramsite Panel to build new internal partition walls will not cause any damage to the original historic building structure. The ultra light weight of the panel will not change the original load distribution of the historic building, which fully meets the protection requirements of cultural relics management department. Many old city renovation projects and historic building retrofit projects have widely adopted Ceramsite Panel in recent years. Project managers reported that this material perfectly solves the contradiction between increasing usable space and the old building structural load limit. The renovation work is completed very quickly, and the original building structure is completely protected.
