CONTAINERS

RAPID WALLS

PREPARED BY:
AIZEL ANTONY
SEM VI
KMEA COLLEGE OF ARCHITECTURE

NTRODUCTION
Developed in Australia in the early
1990s, Rapidwall is now in use in a
number of countries around the
world .
Rapidwall is a cost effective
prefabricated load-bearing, single
panel, walling system with significant
benefits for the building industry,
especially in the speed of
construction.
Manufactured to precise
specifications the panels are cut in the
factory and delivered on-site ready for
erection.

RANGE OF USES:
Domestic homes.
Multi-storey buildings.
Formwork for suspended concrete floor
structures.
Most other purposes for which traditional
building
materials are currently used.
Around the world there is a growing need for low
energy, low cost, environmentally friendly and
ecologically sound building solutions.
Rapidwall is 100% recyclable; earthquake, fire
and cyclone tested to the highest standards as
well as being rot, and termite resistant.
Off cuts from panels can be returned to factory

WHY????
Our India is still a developing country
fighting with a huge shortage of
housing every year.
We need a very fast construction
technology which can increase our
development rate
Conventional methods of construction
lead to formation of huge amount of
CO2 (about 40% is developed due to
construction industry) increasing
chances of global warming.
Fertilizer industries are facing
problems regarding disposal of

ADVANTAGES
Waste is used as resource making it very
economical.
Construction rate is very fast- changes brick
by brick construction to wall by wall
construction.
Green Alternative Technology- Thus
Environment Friendly.
Uses very less Sand, Steel and Water
Building is fire resistant
Earthquake resistant
Much less labour force needed
Weight of structure is very less
More carpet area for same built up area

RAPID WALL PANEL

The Rapidwall panel
measures 12.02 m long
by
3m
high.are cellular in form.
The
panels
cavities extend to the full height
of the panel which has an overall
thickness of 123mm plus or
minus 3mm.
The panel has an inner and outer
leaf of13mm thick plus or minus 3mm,
withcavities 94mm deep by 230mm
Wide separated by a 20mm wide web.

Panels are precut in the factory to specified

dimensions for construction.
Openings for doors and windows are cut in
the factory. Panels do not expand or contract
like brick or concrete and can be cut to
within a 5mm tolerance.
Rapidwall Panels are transported by either
a stillage or open top container. A transport
stillage can carry between five and eight
Panels. An open top container can carry up
to 500 square metres of RapidwalPanel.
Panels are unloaded by a crane.

HOW TO MAKE BUILDING?

FOUNDATION:
A conventional foundation like spread footing,
RCC column footing, raft or pile foundation is
used as per the soil condition and load factors.
All around the building RCC plinth beam is
provided at basement plinth level.
For erection of panel as wall, 12 mm dia vertical
reinforcement called starter bars of 0.75m
length of which 0.45m protrudes up and
remaining portion with 0.15m angle is placed
into the RCC plinth beams before casting.
These bars are kept at a distance of 1m centre
to centre to match the cavities of the panel.

SUPERSTRUCTURE:

Pre-cut panels are brought to the construction

site.
Panels are kept over the starter bars on the plinth
beam using cranes.
Grooves are cut into the panels at every joints to
facilitate integral bonding.
Appropriate reinforcement bars are inserted as
per design into the cavities.
These reinforcements are then tide to the starter
bars.
Verticality of panels are checked and then cavities
having reinforcements are filled with concrete.
It is mandatory to reinforce and fill all the joints
with concrete.

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