LIGHT
The EMMEDUE ® panels present a remarkable easiness of handling, transport and assembling thanks to their very reduced weight that permits their use in any condition. The lightness of the panels matches, in any case, a very remarkable stiffness, even prior of the completion with structural concrete, that guarantees integrity to the panels and correspondence between the panels and their use.
Prior of the concrete application, the weight per square metre changes according to the type of panel: from 3,5 Kg/m2 to 5 Kg/m2.
Thanks to the lightness of the panel, any worker, even by himself, can easily handle over 3 m2 of wall without difficulty.


RAPID ASSEMBLING
Several experiences carried out in all kinds of conditions, in different countries of the world and with any kind of labour have shown that the time required to realize buildings following the EMMEDUE ® system is much shorter compared to the conventional systems.





INEXPENSIVE
The EMMEDUE ® panels represent a real advantage both for the final users and the contractors, since they permit to attain better performances compared to the traditional products and with far lower costs. The idea of having an element, used at the same time both as a highly resistant wall and heat and soundproofing insulating material, has turned out to be undoubtedly successful and innovative.
To this regard, economic comparisons between EMMEDUE® buildings and other traditional systems having equal performances have shown a saving exceeding 20% as for the double panel and 40% as for single panels. Furthermore, it should be taken into account the considerable saving of time due to the use of an industrial product that optimizes the assembling sequences and reduces at the minimum the work of the building site staff.


RESILLIANT
A lot of laboratory tests carried out in several countries of the world as well as in Italy have shown the high load resistance of the EMMEDUE ® panels. For example, tests carried out on a finished single panel having dimensions equal to 2700x1120x150mm, have shown that the same panel can sustain loads above 1.700 KN.
These values are evidence of the strength capacity of the EMMEDUE ® panels that is far greater than that of comparable traditional structures.


ENERGY SAVING
The value of the K total heat transmittance of a wall realized by a panel made up of a polystyrene slab of 4 cm (density 15 kg/m3) applied with plaster 3 cm thick on both sides for a total thickness of 10 cm, is equal to 0.78 W/m2 K.
If the wall is realized using a a panel with polystyrene slab of 8 cm (density 15 kg/m3), the calculated value of the K heat transmittance is equal to 0,49 W/m2 K.
Such a heat insulation degree exceeds in a remarkable way the peculiar values of the partitions or curtain walls obtained with the traditional systems; this produces energy saving equal to 40% both while heating and while cooling.



EXCELLENT ACOUSTICS
The soundproofing of the EMMEDUE ® panels is one of the advantages of the building system. Verifications carried out on EMMEDUE ® panels have given very good results, thus demonstrating the suitability of the panels under the most difficult weather conditions, in compliance with the technical set of rules in force.




FIRE RESISTANT
The quality of the foam polystyrene used is F type, self-extinguishing in compliance with the DIN 4102 rules. Fire resistance tests carried out on PSME80 panels have shown a result higher than REI120.





WIDE CHOICE OF FINISHES
The external walls realized by the EMMEDUE ® panels can be finished using any of WBS's final coats including

WBS Polymer Cement Renders

WBS Silicone & Acrylic Thin Coat Renders

WBS Brick Slips




EARTHQUAKE RESISTANT
Laboratory tests carried out on one EMMEDUE ® two-storey prototype, true scale, have shown that the structure resist and is not damaged by strains higher than those calculated for a First Category Earthquake that is the maximum provided for by the Italian seismic Standards.
The results obtained with these tests represent the scientific evidence of what has been already naturally experimented. In fact, buildings realized using the EMMEDUE ® system have shown their aseismic characteristics in many countries in the world, where the same have successfully overcome the most severe natural tests.


CYCLONE RESISTANT
Buildings realized with the EMMEDUE ® system in areas at high risk of cyclones have demonstrated their ability to withstand the most devastating cyclones throughout the years; thus empirically confirming the results already obtained by calculation, that is to say that the EMMEDUE ® buildings are extremely resistant to the complex strains and thrusts due to the force emitted by cyclones.