Fibre Cement floor boards
15mm High Density Floor boards are being utilised as a standard form of flooring for suspended flooring systems and more recently, Access Panels. The density of the floor boards together with the sizes used on the suspended floor enable an alternative costing solution for the market.
Nutec fibre cement 15mm HD floor boards have been detailed in the SANS 517 building code for light frame steel structures. Their setting out on a suspended flooring system can be obtained through Everite who manufacture all Nutec fibre cement building products.
More recently, Nutec 15mm HD boards have been used as an alternative to current access floor panels. Quite often, the conventional access panels are imported so as to meet specification requirements for such a flooring system. These boards are required to have fire rating characteristics as well as protection to possible condensation build-up. Most access panel boards used in large-scale projects are often imported, which can also escalate building costs on such projects.
The Nutec 15mm HD board (as with all Nutec flat sheets) not only meets the Class 1 fire ratings but also the prevention on condensation. It is suitable for access panels that require tiling as the preferred finish of choice due to its ability to work well with “keying” compounds. This is of major benefit as most imported access panels arrive with a laminated finish to the surface of the panel itself, making it difficult to apply tiling materials. Together with optional backing panels, the Nutec floor panel is currently being used in a prominent mobile phone service provider’s head office in Johannesburg, South Africa.
Watch this space for photo’s on the current project…
No related posts.
Do you have any information that compares Nutec sheets’ carbon footprint with that of local wood sheets?
Hi Ralph
I suppose you have to take into consideration what the purpose of the boards are in so much as what the maintenance and finishing coats (protection purposes) over its lifetime may be, as well as its primary harvesting phase for wood and manufacturing phase for the Nutec boards. Similarly, one would need to know that the wood has been harvested from a sustainable forestry. It’s difficult to compare like for like as the two are not the same, however I would think that the lifetime function and purpose of the product would give it’s carbon footprint properties more validity than simply comparing their initial harvesting or manufacturing information, that would be a short-sighted analysis in my view… Nutec do have information on the sustainability of their products and have been selected as an acceptable building material for eco-construction in South Africa.
Hi Ralph
I suppose you have to take into consideration what the purpose of the boards are in so much as what the maintenance and finishing coats (protection purposes) over its lifetime may be, as well as its primary harvesting phase for wood and manufacturing phase for the Nutec boards. Similarly, one would need to know that the wood has been harvested from a sustainable forestry. It’s difficult to compare like for like as the two are not the same, however I would think that the lifetime function and purpose of the product would give it’s carbon footprint properties more validity than simply comparing their initial harvesting or manufacturing information, that would be a short-sighted analysis in my view… Nutec do have information on the sustainability of their products and have been selected as an acceptable building material for eco-construction in South Africa.
Hope this helps…
Advanced Building