Rapidwall - Construction Details

Detail_01.0 Sectional View

Detail_02.0 Concrete filled Internal Rapidwall

Detail_03.0 Concrete filled External Rapidwall

Detail_04.0 Concrete filled external wall to footing connection Option 1

Detail_04.1 Concrete filled external wall to footing connection Option 2

Detail_04.2 Concrete filled external wall to footing connection Option 3

Detail_05.0 Concrete filled Rapidwall internal wall to suspended floor continuously reinforced

Detail_06.0 Concrete filled Rapidwall internal wall to suspended floor non-continuously reinforced

Detail_07.0 Concrete filled Rapidwall with RW slab form work ceiling internal wall to suspended slab

Detail_08.0 Concrete filled Rapidwall with RW slab formwork ceiling balcony & set down details

Detail_09.0 Concrete filled Rapidwall with RW slab formwork ceiling internal wall to suspended slab

Detail_10.0 External 45 Degree corner concrete filled or insulated

Detail_11.0 External corner alternative, concrete filled or insulated

Detail_12.0 External corner alternative, concrete filled or insulated

Detail_13.0 External corner alternative, concrete filled or insulated

Detail_14.0 Internal intersecting walls, concrete filled or insulated

Detail_15.0 Internal intersecting walls, concrete filled or insulated

Detail_16.0 Internal wall T junction, concrete filled or insulated

Detail_17.0 Internal wall T Junction Concrete filled

Detail_18.0 Control joints-wall length alternative A

Detail_18.1 Control joints-wall length alternative B

Detail_19.0 Control joints T intersections

Detail_20.0 Blind control joint concrete filled panels

Detail_21.0 Blind control joint concrete filled panels

Detail_22.0 Typical control joint External concrete filled or insulated

Detail_23.0 Typical control joint Internal concrete filled or insulated

Detail_24.0 Typical control joint Internal concrete filled or insulated

Detail_25.0 Window frame inserts typical detail with architraves

Detail_26.0 Window frame inserts typical detail with square set

Detail_26.1 Commercial window frame sealing

Detail_27.0 Typically insulated Rapidwall

Detail_28.0 Typical slab edge detail-Insulated Rapidwall

Detail_29.0 Structural inserts - Garage example

Detail_30.0 Roof tie down - Cottage construction- Insulated Rapidwall

Detail_31.0 Roof tie down - Cottage construction- Insulated Rapidwall

Detail_32.0 Roof tie down alternative - Cottage construction- Insulated Rapidwall

Detail_33.0 Rapidwall and timber floor construction

Detail_34.0 Suspended timber floors on Rapidwall

Detail_35.0 Suspended timber floors-Alternative- on Rapidwall

Detail_36.0 Wall mounted hand basin

Detail_37.0 Bath housing

Detail_38.0 Balcony & Bathroom Setdowns

Detail_39.0 Tap penetration - Non party walls only

Detail_40.0 Brick veneer cavity

Detail_41.0 Rapidfence Type 1

Detail_42.0 Rapidfence Type 2

Detail_43.0 Rapidfence Type 3

Detail_44.0 Propping Details

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Welcome to Rapidwall

  • Economical
  • High quality finish
  • Lightweight and accurate
  • Load-bearing
  • Quick to erect
  • Environmentally positive
  • Fire resistant
  • Earthquake resistant
  • Termite resistant

Rapidwall is a single panel walling system that serves as both the internal and external wall and eliminates the need for bricks, blocks, timber and steel wall frames and plasterboard linings.  It is the most ecologically sound and technologically advanced building product available in the world today.

Internationally Recognised

Designed and developed in Australia in the early 1990s, Rapidwall was awarded the prestigious "2009 Global Gypsum Product of the Year" award and was recognised as a "Good Practice" by the United Nations Habitat business awards for sustainable urbanization.

Environmentally Friendly

In a process that will change forever the way buildings are constructed, Rapidwall takes natural gypsum or by-product, chemical waste gypsum and turns it into a 12m x 3m glass-fibre gypsum plaster, single panel, load bearing walling system.

100% Recyclable and water, rot and termite resistant Rapidwall is the ideal building product for fire, cyclone and earthquake prone regions as well as for providing housing solutions for impoverished people.

Rapidwall is the lowest energy embodied building product in the world today and is eligible for Carbon Credits.

Scientifically Tested

In India Rapidwall has been rigorously tested by the University IIT Madras and certified by Structural Engineering Research Centre (SERC) for use in the construction of buildings in earthquake prone areas of up to 10 storey’s.

In Australia testing has been undertaken by Adelaide University and University of South Australia.

In China testing has been undertaken by the University of Hong Kong and the University of Tianjin, School of Civil Engineering in Shandong and others.

At the School of Civil Engineering in Shandong, scientific destruction testing was undertaken on a full scale, five storey Rapidwall building where a horizontal force of 100 tonnes, simulating a force of 8 on the Richter scale, was applied. Rapidwall withstood this testing without any visible signs of cracking.

Sustainable Development

The panels, which are extremely strong yet lightweight, compared to other building methods, are ideal for a wide range of building applications from high-rise, residential, commercial and industrial building construction to low cost relocation housing.  Windows and door openings and the panels themselves are pre-cut in the factory and delivered on-site, ready to erect. This reduces cost and significantly cuts down building time.

In the development of new low energy, low cost, environmentally and ecologically sound housing solutions for the 21st century, Rapidwall is the ideal product for re-housing and for new housing or industrial construction. A world class building system that is 100% recyclable, earthquake tested, is cyclone, fire, water and rot resistant, is load bearing, termite resistant and sound proof.

Simply stated it is the best building material in the world..