Jersey: 5 apartments, office and garage block
Plymouth: Town houses with ‘lower ground’ floor and ‘Mantle’ retaining wall
The 3 basic components (l to r: panels, corners, ringbeams)
Room in Roof comes as standard
The System is used for external, internal and party walls, roofs, cellars and retaining walls. It provides the complete, ‘super-insulated’ thermal shell, above and below ground level. There is no need for conventional timber trusses in the attic.
‘Room-In-Roof’ living space is offered as standard.
Elastomeric render just 5mm thick can be applied directly to the external surface of the panels, with no need to batten out or wrap/clad with an insulated render system. Mantle Building System can support all Codes for Sustainable Homes, most designs, storey heights and external finishes including: render, brick and brick slips, timber, slate etc.
The Mantle Building System is, in effect, an hybrid solution in between Stressed Skin Panels and regular Structural Insulated Panels (SIP) systems. This means that it is:
Frameless: There is no need for vertical down-stands. Apertures and Service penetrations can be inserted anywhere in a panel, even after the initial build completion. The system is ‘Future Proof’.
Load-bearing: Loads are carried throughout the entire structure. There are no point loads and lintels etc. are not necessary for most designs.
Composite: The use of selected component raw materials and their combination produce a composite system at least 4 times stronger than engineered timber solutions.
There are just 3 basic System components:
Panels: – (2.4m x 1.2m x 220mm)
Ring Beams: – (2.4m x 350mm x 198mm) to hang floor joists,
if it is necessary
Corners: – (2.4m x 500mm x 500mm)
Although the System has been improved since the films were made, the clips below provide an overview:
Channel TV Jersey Project: