Status: Suspended
Company: Styrox Holdings (Pty) Ltd
Tel: +27(0)11 447 4593
Email: n/a
Address: P O Box 27196 EHRLICHPARK 9312
Approved Extract
The Styrox Building System consist of:
- concrete raft foundations or conventional cast in situ concrete strip footings for perimeter walls and conventional cast in situ concrete strip footings or thickened surface beds under internal walls;
- superstructure walls which have an overall thickness of either 216 mm or, where greater acoustic privacy is required, 286 mm. They are constructed of interlocking hollow buildings units of expanded polystyrene (EPS) which act as permanent insulation and shuttering and are filled with cementitious material. Walls incorporate vertical reinforcement, precast lintels over openings, ring beams and roof holding-down anchors and are finished with 18 mm thick plaster;
- conventional roof construction which incorporates cross-bracing in the plane of the ceiling when specified dimensional limitations are exceeded;
conventional roof sheeting, or clay or concrete roof tiles.
The certificate covers the use of the building system in all areas of South Africa for the erection of single storey buildings of the following types:
- non-residential school buildings (A3)
- moderate and low-risk commercial service buildings (B2) and (B3)
- moderate and low-risk industrial buildings (D2) and (D3)
- small shops (F2)
- offices (G1)
- hostels, semi-detached, row and detached houses (H2), (H3) and (H4)
- moderate and low-risk storage (J2) and (J3)
Note: The occupancy classes given in Table 1 of Regulation A20(1) of SABS 0400 of 1990 have been attributed by Agrément South Africa to the types of buildings covered by the certificate and are shown in brackets after the type of buildings.
