Litecrete Lightweight Precast Not Always a Smooth Looker

Whether it’s cladding for apartment buildings or insulated external walls for stand-alone dwellings, Litecrete lightweight precast concrete is available in a range of surface finishes.

Popular of recent times are rough-sawn or band-sawn timber finishes, either horizontally or vertically orientated. The options range from rough-sawn pine timber planks in regular or random widths, to 150 mm wide band-sawn American Ash. Timber planks need to be replaced after seven to ten castings as the wood fibres accumulate concrete paste, thus compromising the depth of the texture. So much so that for our most popular finish, band-sawn American Ash, we have manufactured 8 metre x 4 metre rubber formliners, in both a vertical and horizontal orientation.

Consequently, we can use the formliners over and over again without a deterioration in the surface definition. Architects also specify Litecrete with weatherboard textures, particularly for apartments cladding where long-term durability and low maintenance is a prerequisite.

Litecrete surface finishes don’t just stop with timber; they can also offer options from simple linear designs to sophisticated graphics.

Ask Litecrete whether it is possible to achieve a particular look; they'll probably say “yes”.

Residential Wall Panels

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Litecrete precast residential wall panels have been designed to offer a durable alternative to traditional house construction methods.

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Standard sized panels up to 7-8 metres x 3.5 metres and can be used for single-storey or two-storey applications. Larger panels are possible subject to freight/design parameters.

All Litecrete applications are subject to specific engineering design by a registered structural engineer (not by Litecrete) prior to lodging a Building Consent application.

To comply with the Building Code insulation requirements for Solid Construction, in Climate Zone 1, the required panel thickness is 220 mm.

The Litecrete Construction System, which is subject to specific engineering design, meets the following performance requirements of the building code:

Clause B1 STRUCTURE: Performance B1.3.1, B1.3.2 and B1.3.4 for the relevant conditions in B1.3.3. a,b,f,g,h,i,j
Clause B2 DURABILITY: Performance B2.3.1, 50 years
Clause C3 SPREAD OF FIRE: Performance C3.3.5
Clause E2 EXTERNAL MOISTURE: Performance E2.3.2, E2.3.3, E2.3.6
Clause E3 INTERNAL MOISTURE: Performance E3.3.1
Clause F2 HAZARDOUS BUILDING MATERIALS: Performance F2.3.1
Clause G6 AIR & IMPACT SOUND: Performance G6.3.1
Clause H1 ENERGY EFFICIENCY: Performance H1.3.1, H1.3.2

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Commercial Cladding

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Litecrete builds on traditional pre-cast concrete advantages by offering a lightweight alternative in the form of exterior and interior walls, firewalls, acoustic walls, vertical façade fins, and clip-on exterior cladding panels.

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Commercial panel sizes are tailored to suit the project.

The design, application, engineering, panel sizes and installation requirements for low-rise and high-rise Litecrete commercial projects differ markedly from residential installations. Potential uses are exterior cladding, sunshades, fins, acoustic or firewalls and façade re-instatements.

All Litecrete prouct applications are subject to specific engineering design by a registered structural engineer (not by Litecrete) prior to lodging a Building Consent application.

The Litecrete Construction System, which is subject to specific engineering design, meets the following performance requirements of the building code:

Clause B1 STRUCTURE: Performance B1.3.1, B1.3.2 and B1.3.4 for the relevant conditions in B1.3.3. a,b,f,g,h,i,j
Clause B2 DURABILITY: Performance B2.3.1, 50 years
Clause C3 SPREAD OF FIRE: Performance C3.3.5
Clause E2 EXTERNAL MOISTURE: Performance E2.3.2, E2.3.3, E2.3.6
Clause E3 INTERNAL MOISTURE: Performance E3.3.1
Clause F2 HAZARDOUS BUILDING MATERIALS: Performance F2.3.1
Clause G6 AIR & IMPACT SOUND: Performance G6.3.1
Clause H1 ENERGY EFFICIENCY: Performance H1.3.1, H1.3.2

Structure

Durability

Protection from Fire

External Moisture

Internal Moisture

Hazardous Building Materials

Airborne and Impact Sound

Energy Efficiency

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