Building a high rise hotel comes with huge extra structural costs, as the foundation and lower floors have to support the massive dead load of all the walls, floors, and fixtures on the upper levels. EPS Cement Sandwich Panel is up to 70 percent lighter than traditional concrete block walls, so it dramatically reduces the total dead load of the entire hotel building, cutting down the required size and cost of the foundation and structural steel frame by a very significant amount. For a 20 story high rise hotel, the total weight reduction from switching all interior partitions to these lightweight panels can be thousands of tons, saving developers hundreds of thousands of dollars in structural material costs alone. The light weight of the panels also makes it much easier to transport materials up to upper floors using standard construction elevators, speeding up the installation process even more on tall building sites. Construction teams do not need to use heavy lifting equipment to move the panels around, so the risk of on site workplace accidents is greatly reduced. Many high rise hotel project managers have reported that using these panels allowed them to simplify their structural design, skip several expensive extra reinforcement steps, and finish the entire structural construction phase weeks ahead of their original timeline. This weight saving benefit is one of the most underrated but most valuable advantages of EPS Cement Sandwich Panel for large high rise hotel projects, delivering massive direct cost savings that go far beyond the price of the panels themselves.
