Ceramsite Panel is the perfect solution for building additional lightweight floors on top of existing old buildings where the original roof structure has very limited extra load bearing capacity. Many old buildings built decades ago did not reserve extra load capacity for adding new floors on the rooftop and using traditional heavy brick walls will easily exceed the safe load limit of the original roof slab. The ultra light weight of Ceramsite Panel reduces the total dead load of the new additional floor wall system by more than 70 percent compared with traditional masonry walls making the whole rooftop additional floor project completely structurally safe. Construction teams do not need to carry out large scale structural reinforcement work on the original building which cuts the total renovation cost by more than half and shortens the whole construction period significantly. Many urban old building renovation projects that added new rooftop activity rooms or office spaces using Ceramsite Panel successfully passed the local building structure safety inspection without any structural modification to the original main building.
