Precast hollow panels: budgeting and comparison with ceramic block walls

Abstract

Nowadays, civil construction is increasingly looking for adjustments and construction alternatives that minimize the amount of waste, speed up construction and enable versatility in the process of carrying out works. One example is the use of pre-molded hollow panels. Regarding these panels, the objective of this work is to carry out a budgetary analysis of the costs of implementing and applying alveolar panels to replace conventional walls made of ceramic blocks, with the aim of presenting characteristics that allow opting or not for their use in civil works. To achieve this, it is essential to understand the process of planning, execution and performance in practice, that is, evaluating the need for an application that justifies the cost-benefit of this alveolar method. In relation to the methodology of this work, bibliographical, normative, cost and execution research was carried out, which aimed to support and emphasize the case study, aimed at a closing wall using honeycomb plates in the city of Santa Isabel do Pará. The results showed the economy of both resources and costs in the use of these panels in comparison to conventional ceramic masonry, with the main aspects being labor costs and implementation execution time.