PVC permanent concrete formwork wall system is used to rapidly build internal and external load-bearing walls. Made from durable PVC, lightweight panels clip and slide together and are core-filled with concrete to form walls. The panels remain in place as sacrificial formwork, leaving a high quality, clean, straight surface with minimal deflection.
1. Stay in Place (SIP) PVC Formwork: Installed, filled, and not removed. This eliminates the need to strip, stack, and transport formwork back to storage.
2. Insulated Concrete Formwork (ICF): Development of SIP formwork with additional thermal insulation properties. Typically involves expanded polystyrene EPS foam as the mould.
The system utilizes professional PVC extrusion profiles with soft-hard co-extrusion technology. The soft PVC integration allows for formwork folding, offering several key advantages:
Ideal for replacing costly and time-consuming traditional construction methods:
| + Concrete filled blocks |
| + Conventionally formed in-situ reinforced concrete walls |
| + Precast/tilt-up walls |
| + Conventional clay, concrete masonry and blockwork |
In today's competitive construction industry, cost efficiencies are critical. These panels offer comparable initial costs to blockwork, but the total cost savings stack up quickly through reduced labor and faster installation.