Double C-Block is an innovative new building element, combining both hygro-thermal and acoustic properties en suite, condensed into a 200mm building block, yet without compromising the desired consistent structural compressive strength.
The Department of Environmental Design is proposing a new building element, namely the Double C-Block, which is an innovative idea of combining both hygro- thermal and acoustic properties en suite, condensed into a 200mm building block, yet without compromising the desired consistent structural compressive strength.
The University of Malta has already been supporting this idea, spurring from a Master Dissertation in 2014, into a few prototype blocks and wall, tested to destruction for their compressive strength, after conducting thermal and acoustic tests of sample walls in a hot box and acoustic chamber.
Development of this block will now be researched further in collaboration between the University of Malta and Cementstone Manufacturing Co. Ltd., a local established leading manufacturer of the standard HCB units, as part of Attard Bros. Group of Companies.
Preliminary research outcomes were published in paper the DCB team submitted to SDEWES conference in Paphos 6-10 November 2022.
Co-authors are Mphil Candidate Luca Caruso Dr Simon P Borg, Head of Department of Environmental Design and Prof. Vincent Buhagiar.
Paper is available upon request on Research Gate.
Project R&I 2019 010T Double C Block is financed by the Malta Council for Science & Technology, for and on behalf of the Foundation for Science and Technology, through the FUSION: R&I Technology Development Programme’. More info at this link.