Polystyrene foam concrete

3- What is the Polystyrene foam concrete?

It is a Kind of concrete which consists of light weight elements and consists of three main components, Polystyrene, foam and cement and it features lightweight, light intensity and good thermal insulation properties and resistance to fire and frost.

Fig 3 the Polystyrene foam concrete Block

4- The benefits of Polystyrene foam concrete:

1-has a low cost in most cases. 2- Possesses good operative run, which allows a different treatments of the surface. 3- Can reduce the weight with a wide range of densities and resistors. 4- Can achieve an additional saving due to a less of the dead weight of the building. 5- Weight reduction leads to easy transportation and reduces cost. 6- Economy as well as in transportation and in manpower effort. 7-It benefits ofenergy preservation due to good thermal insulation properties and thus reducing cost air conditioning. 8- Acoustic characteristics as this type of concrete cause sound absorption and thus reducing the noise. 9- Polystyrene concrete has high fire-resistant.