RECYCLED POLYPROPYLENE FORMWORK
DESIGNED TO CREATE LIGHTENED SLABS & RAFTS
The use of U-Boot Beton formwork makes it possible to create mushroom pillars, with the possibility to have the mushroom
within the thickness of the slab. Thanks to the conical elevating foot, immerging the U-Boot Beton® formworks in the concrete casting will create
a gridwork of mutually perpendicular beams closed from the bottom and the top by a flat plate that is created with a single casting;
this results in considerable reduction in the use of concrete and steel.
U-Boot Beton is used to create slabs with large spans or that are able to support large loads without beams. Light and quick and easy to position, thanks to their modularity the designer can vary the geometric parameters as needed to adapt to all situations with great architectural freedom.
Possibility to gain floors at the same building height (towers) and building volume.
Larger spaces.
Thinner slabs but with equal loads and clearances, or bigger clearances with an equal thickness.
Flat soffit for greater flexibility when installing systems.
Facilitated use reallocation. Wider bays.
OF THE STRUCTURE WEIGHING ON THE PILLARS AND THE FOUNDATION
Lower costs for foundation excavations. Less excavation.
Less acoustic transmittance.
We are wrongly led to estimate the advantage of a slab lightened with U-Boot Beton limiting it to a mere comparison between
savings in concrete and the cost of the formwork on the thickness of the slabs only.
However, this does not show the various economic, practical and operational
advantages provided with U-Boot Beton for the entire structure:
• less use of structural rebar in the slabs, pillars and foundation up to a total of 15% (also in the case of variants);
• less concrete is used in the foundations, columns and slabs;
• by reducing building weight antiseismic advantages are created;
• slimmer pillars and foundations, leading to lower costs related to excavation for foundations;
• also irregularly planning of pillars can be obtained to reflect the architectural freedom of the structure;
• reduction of work and overhead transfer of the formworks;
• plus other advantages in on-site logistics.
Formworks for lightened structures in reinforced concrete cast on site.
Laying procedure of two-way voided slab using U- Boot Beton.