Block Production
Block Production
concrete
utilizing in
excess of 25%
of fly-ash
Affordable houses cast in-situ in Indonesia in density 1.200 kg/m³ and wall-
Neopor cellular lightweight concrete (CLC) has been thickness of only 60 mm. One house each day per each mold. Frames for
used in over 40 countries over the past 25 years to pro - openings (d/w) and facility tubes cast-in.
duce over hundred thousand houses and apartments,
also schools, hospitals, industrial and commercial buil -
dings.
CLC is an air-cured lightweight concrete that can be
produced at project site, utilizing equipment and molds
normally in use for conventional concrete.
The density recommended is 1.000 kg /m³ (oven-dried) for
blocks and 1.200 kg/m3 to produce prefab elements and
walls cast in-situ. The typical mix for a 1.000 kg/m³ density
CLC to be used in blocks is as follows (to produce
1 m3)
Cement (Portland): 190 kg = 61 liters
Sand (0 - 2 mm or finer): 430 kg = 164 liters
Fly-Ash: 309 kg = 100 liters (approx)
Water: 250 kg = 250 liters
Foam (neopor-600): 423 liters
Wet density 1.179 kg/m3
Total volume
(submerged in water) 1.000 liters (= 1 m³)
Expected (oven-dry)
density. approx. 1.000 kg/m3
Content of air
Light-weight block-production on site in India. Specially designed molds
in concrete approx. 43% produced locally to Neopors specifications are assembled and waxed and
Content of Fly-Ash in poured with CLC density 1.000 kg/m3.
solid material (929 kg): 33%
Content of Fly-Ash in
oven-dry material: 31 %
Costing
Blocks are cast in vertical position to offer equally accurate sides, given
by the mold. Only one side (the top when cast) is not given by the mold
as open-top, which is screeded. This side will face the next block in
masonary anyhow.
Blocks are used for outside walls and partitions
on highrise structure of conventional concrete.