SLENTITE in the CUBE, the worldwide first carbon-reinforced concrete building

This week our co-founders Marc and Dirk visited the CUBE in Dresden, an amazing building that was recently unveiled for the first time. They were very warmly received by construction manager Matthias Tietze and public relations manager Sandra Kranich of the C³ association.

The CUBE is the worldwide first building built entirely with carbon-reinforced concrete to demonstrate the strengths of this new construction technology. Instead of steel reinforcement carbon fiber meshes are used. This enables much thinner walls since the steel reinforcement does not require thick concrete layers for protection against corrosion. Saving wall thickness saves concrete and weight, which in turn saves CO₂ from concrete production and transportation of the wall elements. Thinner walls also free up valuable space in the building.

To further optimize this, aerogel insulation has been installed for thinnest thermal insulation, and we are very happy that our SLENTITE® aerogel was chosen for the CUBE! SLENTITE® was developed by Marc and Dirk (and their colleagues) during their time at BASF. In combination, thin carbon-reinforced concrete and SLENTITE® aerogel make thinnest construction possible. As additional benefit, the robust and non-dusty SLENTITE® panels were easy to install for the C³ team. This was not the first joint use for SLENTITE® and carbon-reinforced concrete since the powerful combination had already been put to the test in the house of Matthias, along with SLENTITE® for thin floor insulation – a story we will share in a separate post.

Aerogel-it is working on new sustainable aerogel solutions, for space- and CO₂-saving construction of the future.