Tuesday 29 November 2011

Wall Panel - For A Wonderful Interior

Wall panel serve as explanations of displays in galleries and museums. Apart from this wall panel is also used to exhibit equipment’s. As part of interior decoration; these wall panels divide spaces within the fashionably. This can be achieved by paneling the lower half portion or the higher of the wall by setting up wainscoting or producing an artificial appearance.

Wainscoting is useful to cover the most susceptible and lowest portions of the wall. Wainscoted walls are
decorative and attractive and require very little cleaning. It is unaffected by damage. There are many people who still prefer wainscoted walls even though modern paint and wallpapers have become very popular.

You can put on temporary or portable wall panel that could be utilized for dividing workspaces in an office setting. Sections of wall panel can be pulled together in metal or wood. Usually; they are covered with fabrics or grained materials to give the walls a more elegant and attractive look.

There are acoustic wall panel as well which absorb sounds. These are much more suitable in studios.

If you are constructing a small building; artificial finishes or faux wall panels can be a good idea. Faux finish can copy the look stone, fabric or wood panels. As a substitute, prune can be interleaved to a wall to duplicate the look of inlaid wall panels.

Exterior Cladding - For The Tough and Beautiful Exterior

The exterior wall surfaces of building forms the skin of the building. These building components or exterior surfaces are usually known as cladding. The aim of these wall cladding coverings is to give the building a weather resistant exterior covering. The exterior building covering should be planned and constructed to avoid the gathering of water within the building wall assemblies and cavities. There are various types, styles and materialvarieties for exterior wall cladding. The exterior cladding also offers aesthetic and architectural charm to thebuilding’s exterior.

Exterior wall cladding includes the following:

1. Wood product which includes panels, shingles, hardboard, clapboard siding, plywood, plank siding, OSB.

2. Masonry product such as stone, simulated stone, concrete panels and blocks, brick, poured concrete.

3. Vinyl siding

4. Fiber cement siding

5. Metal products such as aluminum siding or steel siding

6. Stucco over concrete block or wood framing

7. Synthetic Stucco (Exterior Insulation Finish Systems or EIFS)

8. Asphalt shingle

9. Clay tile or Slate

Every kind of exterior cladding has many characteristics linked with the appearance, durability installation and cost differentials. Things to be taken into account:


1. Weather tight - the capacity to resist wind, water and snow

2. Strength - resist to mechanical damage

3. Structural Property - capability of carrying load

4. Insulating Value

5. Maintenance requirement

6. Common Failure Mode

Monday 21 November 2011

Steel Building Solutions


Steel buildings are the most preferred in the industrial construction sector and they are tagged for the speed, functionality and durability. Steel buildings can also be categorized into pre-engineered steel buildings which is very cost efficient and also saves critical time in successful project implementation. Steel buildings are not supposed to be box buildings but they can be flexible and modern with environment friendly features. Steel buildings can provide great design and flexibility and also prove to be resistant to moisture, earthquakes, adverse weather conditions, fire and termites. These can be totally customized into high quality buildings. These steel buildings can now be found into various sectors like commercial and office buildings, industrial utility buildings, automobile showrooms, site offices and residencies, restaurants and farm houses etc.

The various advantages of steel buildings are better build quality, requirement of light foundation, durable and re-locatable, quick erection and single source responsibility, design flexibility, no escalation due to fixed cost and predictability of build cost and time. Steel buildings can be clubbed with the revolutionary dry wall solution as wall panels saves on a lot of time and maintains the solid effect of conventional brick or block wall and it is very light and can withstand fire for a relatively long duration. Wall panels can be used in the steel buildings as internal or external walls or prefabricated shelter.

Polycarbonate Sheet – The Best Option

Polycarbonate sheets are very much used in the construction industry like for example in sound walls, or curved glazing or domelights. In this age of global warming and high energy consuming materials, polycarbonate sheet proves to be an unique option of minimizing or stopping the energy consumption in several application areas like artificial electrical lighting and so on. These sheets offer the opportunity to use the solar energy for better and in an efficient way for many years to come. These sheets are the first choice as construction materials and they result into great financial savings in the long run. 

Polycarbonate sheets are high in strength, light transmission and heat insulation. It is a unique engineering thermoplastic which includes high level of physical, mechanical, thermal and electrical properties. It is also known as the king of engineering plastic. Many of the highlighted properties are:

·        Light weight
·        Better performance
·        Framework support can be increased with distance
·        Great strength
·        High light transmission
·        UV protection and weather resistance
·        High heat insulation
·        Simply processed and simple installation
·        High resistance
·        Available in many colors 

Also, many may not be aware but polycarbonate sheets, the scrap wastage can be reprocessed and can be used in the production of re-granulated sheet material and the off-cuts after cutting and trimming of sheets can be recycled into lower grade polycarbonate products. Because the technology is not very developed, currently, polycarbonate material used or mixed with other substances requires processing with many other commercial facilities but the slow degradation does not give rise to any hazardous by-products.

Monday 14 November 2011

Prefabricated Construction, The Beginning Of A New Era

Change is the only constant. And with technological advancements, change is ever so prominent. This is especially true for the field of construction, where people are using newer techniques of building commercial spaces. Prefabricated construction is a kind of construction in which various parts of a complete building are made at a plant and later they are shipped for assembling at the location where the commercial space is to be made. Assembling of prefabricated parts is done in less time and this task is free from the hassles of on-site construction.

This kind of construction is best suited for temporary offices. For instance, people do not want to invest a lot of money in building a permanent commercial space can opt for Pre fabricated buildings. At such places, prefabricated construction is in very high demand. This kind of construction involves less money and less time. When the owner of the prefabricated building wants to remove his office from the present location then he can get the office dismantled. It means that prefabricated parts can be moved to other locations where the owners want to move. Prefabricated construction has come as a boon to a large number of people. It is getting more and more famous because of its modularity and ease of installation.

Get Acoustic Panels For Your Office

Getting an office constructed and you want privacy for every room? You do not want people of one room to get disturbed by hearing the voices from other rooms. Acoustic panels serve the perfect solution to the problem of transfer of sound from one room to other. Acoustic panels can be purchased easily from different manufacturers. They are installed on the outer part of the walls. You do not need to worry about the appearance of your walls because acoustic panels come in attractive designs. You can easily get attractive acoustic panels which will give your office the look which you want.

The thickness of acoustic panels matters a lot when it comes to absorbing sounds. If you know that a certain room in your office will be used for discussions or other activities which will make noise then you should get thicker acoustic panels for such a room. Acoustic panels are available in various sizes and designs. You can choose one which suits your requirements and budget.

Sunday 6 November 2011

Modern Building Products and Solutions

Building products generally remind us of raw materials like sand and cement but that is not what only goes in building a space. These building products include architectural hardware and decorative items, excluding the raw materials used for construction. Though it is very much necessary to have awareness about the new innovations like fiber cement, ceiling grid companies providing building products are not aware as this is a pioneering concept. Buildings today are no longer simple places but, spaces with a personality, especially the corporate space. 

Every office or working place has a look of its own, and that is a unique building solution. With top companies rapidly emerging as building solutions companies with innovative concepts in industrial and infrastructure sector, they not only provide the building products but also other aesthetic solutions with choices. A complete range of building solutions include pre-engineered solutions like flooring, ceilings, roofing, walls, cladding, doors and much more. 

The offices specially have to be taken care of, with special attention to be given to the type of work being carried out there and the strength and durability of the materials as well as the aesthetic value. It is very important to take right decisions while choosing the right building products and solutions, especially for the corporate sector.

Decorate the Wall of Your Office with Fiber Screens


We all want to boost the work culture of our office and what better way than wall décor in office spaces. It is very easy to plan an office space with wall décor as the center of planning. In all offices, the walls play a very big visual attention in form of cabin partitions. 

Normally an office place is a big area with fiber glass or wooden screens designed cautiously to create a grid design. Each single grid square is therefore used as cabin.  Therefore glass wall décor will make good visual link between the adjoining cabins. However using glass wall décor could be an expensive proposition and fiber partitions could be considered as an alternative. But if you want visual connection between the cabins, then you should try combination of fiber and glass partitions. 

The office space walls could be used to exhibit “Motivating” picture frames which will “teach” the office employees about leadership, team building, goal setting, leadership, success, etc. You should plan the wall décor in a way that the company for whom you are designing the interiors; plans to expand in future in a newer space, the entire wall décor theme can be used in their new office space easily.