Circular construction with high-performance, low-carbon building materials from ParaStruct. Unlock quality of life in affordable spaces with added value!
Building valuable assets, retrofitting existing builds or attaching further space is indispensable. Involved professionals know this challenging task that requires a high degree of coordination and accountability. Legislation and loan requirements are strongly limiting the amount of carbon utilised and emitted from planning to the disposal phase of a building’s lifecycle. Keeping using conventional, high-polluting concrete for any application is raising construction costs to an unsustainable level and poses suboptimal financing conditions. As crucial as concrete is, there are huge volumes of it used for subflooring and screeds, which could easily be axed.
Screed: A hidden emissions driver
Screed is the second largest emission source of modern buildings, accounting for at least 5% of a site’s CO2 budget. The associated huge water content, as well in CaS-screeds, is a further risk, especially in multi-storey timber buildings, as well as in renovating existing buildings.
Customers, public procurement and investors are requesting more sustainable and futureproof solutions. ParaStruct’s BioScreed combines the economic and practical advantages of cement screed with the added ecological value of dry screeds. Offering local producers and processing partners a win-win business model, ParaStruct is enabling circular materials through making industrial circular economy profitable for all involved.
Deep know-how in material sciences, construction development and closing material loops benefits your business and customers. You can differentiate your projects as profitable real estate, using it as a material bank, storing valuable resources for later economic utilisation, saving costs for disposal management and reducing liabilities. Through compensating grey energy whilst the erection with the biobased material and preserving the value beyond the use phase, BioScreed offers novel value creation opportunities that go beyond the risks of stranded assets.
Built on real-world expertise
Most importantly, ParaStruct is built on decades of first-hand experience on site, through the founder and CEO Georg Breitenberger. Having those working with the building material in mind at any decision in the development process lies at the heart of BioScreed. It is provided as a singular ready-to-use dry mix, which is slightly hydrated on-site with common machinery and worked with known tools. The material is applied using standard procedures, except that the drying times are shorter.
Planners and professionals in timber construction benefit imperatively through the high-performance flexural strength exceeding 6MPa. Those who work in retrofitting now have a viable option to make use of rooms or even whole levels, as BioScreed is at the same time 40% lighter, allowing for optimal technical fit.
Casted from 30mm to 60mm (as the norm with heat piping) and beyond, BioScreed is applied as bonded, floating or heated screed. On top of that, it is a seamless monolithic floor that can also be used directly as the surface. It’s designed for interior use and compatible with all building types—brick, timber, prefab—and all floor coverings, whereas the less glue and bonding is applied, the higher is the potential circularity rate.
Hitting EU and UK markets with competitive pricing to cement screed, BioScreed is most beneficial to be applied in new builds and retrofit projects except in basements and bathrooms, perfectly fitting urban housing development as well as commercial spaces. The low barrier for adoption for screed layers and contractors, combined with the multiple benefits at equal costs for developers and planners supports fast scaling of circular construction.
Partnership opportunities
Also interested UK businesses from timber and building material industries are kindly invited to get in touch to upcycle and futureproof their operations. Join us in building the future of construction: circular, clean, and competitive.
Affordable, healthy living space has rising demand, is the basis of long-term value retention and shall be made with future generations and their needs in mind. Offering optimal stability and surfaces, BioScreed is vital in mixed-use or adaptive use buildings. Assets in real estate are often “decarbonised” just while the use phase, whereas we have a material choice to make: to build, or not to build on sand?
ParaStruct also makes mineral residues more profitable as a secondary resource and is close to retrieving binders from demolition waste.
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