Bernie Sanders once said, “Every day we are paying more for energy than we should due to poor insulation, inefficient lights, appliances, and heating and cooling equipment- money we could save by investing in energy efficiency”. Now, answer a question. Whether India is in dearth of insulation technology? No, there are various kinds of Insulated sandwich panels in India namely PUF Panels, Rockwool Panels, Glasswool Panels, EPS Panels and many more.
It is the era of new-age technology and innovation with quick and easy alternative to everything. Requirement of high quality materials is a necessity in modern day construction. Materials that are of high strength, lightweight, durable is required for sustainable construction.
In this modern era, infrastructure and construction industry adopted new-age technology for construction, whether if we talk about Warehouses, Factory Sheds, Shopping marts, Airports, Night Shelters, Schools, Hospitals etc. Gone are the days where infrastructure and construction industry uses bricks and mortar for construction. All modern day constructions are Pre-engineered construction. Insulated Sandwich panels is the future of Pre-engineered buildings construction which meets all the industrial and commercial requirements with its abundant advantages.
Sandwich panels contains different insulations as a core like PUF, EPS, Rockwool and Glasswool between two metal sheets. Insulated Sandwich panels are having high insulation properties and has proven to be the most suitable alternative to brick-and-mortar construction. Insulated sandwich panels can be used for wall claddings as well as roofing.
There are many other materials available in market for wall claddings and roofing like asbestos sheets, aerocon panels, cement boards, single skin sheets, 3D panels etc. Now, we will discuss how insulated sandwich panels are better in comparison to these available products in the market?
Engko Engineering Company helps you in a very simple way to judge how insulated sandwich panels are the better choice for claddings by measuring on some important parameters like construction time, finishing quality, health hazard, insulation properties, reusability and cost.
Construction Time: Cement based sheets and panels are very high in weight which needs minimum 4 manpower to install and lift one panel/sheet whereas Insulated sandwich panels are light in weight and can be easily installed with 2 manpower. On the other hand we need to paint these cemented panels which further increases the construction time whereas insulated sandwich panels are coming with pre-painted GI sheets. So the overall construction time will reduced by more than 40% using insulated sandwich panels.
Finishing Quality: If we talk about cement based sheets and panels, Jointing of two panels needs to be filled up with tape, silicon, putty and after that we need to paint it which with the passage of time we will come to see cracks on that joint which looks very shabby than again we have to repeat the same process for its beautification whereas in insulated sandwich panels case we have tongue and groove joinery system which provides proper jointing and does not requires any tape, putty to cover the gap. These sandwich panels are ready to use once they got installed.
Health Hazard: Generally cement based sheets and panels uses silica and asbestos content which is hazardous for health. Many research and reports states that silica is a cancer causing agent, so occupants of these sheets are at huge risk. On the other hand, insulated sandwich panels have no such content even these sandwich panels are coming under green product category.
Insulation properties: There is no such insulation properties if we talk about single skin sheet, cement based sheets and panels which is not at all good to provide ambient temperature for the people working and living inside the buildings. This also reduces the productivity by almost 70%. Whereas as insulated sandwich panels have more than 80% insulation properties as compared to other products available in the market. Normally, these insulated panels provides the difference of 6° ~ 8° from outside temperature without any air conditioning. These Sandwich panels are energy efficient too.
Re-usability and Cost: Everybody in this world cares for the cost they are paying for the product in addition with their advantages. Initially Insulated Sandwich panels are 20% expensive as compared to the cement board panels or aerocon panels, but when it comes at the execution stage we have to pay 5% ~ 7% extra for Cement board panels as a wastage, labour cost as it is heavier in weight as compared to sandwich panels. Once after installation we need to pay around 2% ~ 3% extra for its beautification and finishing in case of cement board panels, on the other hand insulated sandwich panels are ready to use. As insulated sandwich panels are energy efficient, they save almost 10% of electricity cost in long run whereas no such cost can be availed by using other material. There is no maintenance cost in sandwich panels but we need to invest minimum 10% for maintenance of aerocon panels. The most fruitful advantage of sandwich panels is its re-usability specially in cases of site infra where we can shift and use sandwich panels for minimum 5 times where as in cement based panels we will not been able to use its 70% for the 2nd time. So overall if we will see in the long run, Insulated sandwich panels are minimum 30% cheaper than the alternate products available in the market.
In the end, we believe that insulated sandwich panel is the future of construction and hence we are dedicated to help you achieve success by providing low cost, sustainable and highly appreciable insulated sandwich panels and other prefabricated structures!