KMG - Group

Technical characteristics and advantages

The modularity of the KMG^® system allows an absolute flexibility of design and a high level of integration with other construction systems.
The simplicity of assembly, the extreme lightness and the ease of handling of the panels allows for the realization of any type of construction even in difficult operating conditions and in habitats at a high risk for seismic events or with adverse climatic conditions.

	Sustainability and Energy Saving The remarkable improvement of the heat comfort indoors the house built with the KMG^® system is guaranteed by the wide presence of polystyrene and by the very low thermal conductivity which, eliminating the thermal bridges, reduces the energy consumption and favours those strategies aiming at sustainable development. Thanks to the KMG^® building system one can realize high energy efficiency buildings thanks to continuous walls without thermal bridges and thanks to insulated canalizations inside the panels.

	Lightness The KMG^® panels are lightweight and sufficiently rigid at the same time, even before their finishing with spritz-beton, so that they turn out to be extremely manageable and easy to handle and to assemble even in the most uncomfortable operating conditions.

	Rapid installation Several experiences carried out in various conditions, in many countries of the world and using different labourers, have shown a remarkable shortening of the time of realization as for the constructions carried out with the KMG^® system if compared to those carried out with the traditional systems, thanks to the use of an industrial product which optimizes the assembling sequences and reduces the operations of the construction site personnel to a minimum.

	Convenience The KMG^® panels represent a real advantage both for the final users and the firms since they permit to obtain better performances than the traditional products and at more reduced costs.

	Versatility The KMG^® building system favours absolute design flexibility, since it is equipped with a full range of building elements: load-bearing walls, curtain walls, floors and stairs. Furthermore any kind of geometrical form, either plane or curve, is easily obtainable just by simply cutting the elements at the site.

	Load resistance Several laboratory tests carried out in different areas of the world as well as in Italy have put into evidence the high load resistance of the KMG^® panels. For example, compression tests with centred load carried out on a finished single panel, cm 270 high, have shown that the same panel can sustain a maximum load of 1530 kN/m

	Fire resistance The quality of the foam polystyrene used for our panels is of the self-extinguishing type; moreover, the two concrete layers which coat the panel sides prevent its combustion. The fire resistance has been also verified in tests carried out at different laboratories, complying in full with the minimum requirements of the most demanding regulations. For example, a wall realized using the PSM80 panel has shown a fire resistance greater than REI120.

	Earthquake resistance Laboratory tests carried out on one of the KMG^® prototypes made up of two stairs in true scale have shown that the structure withstands, with no damages, strains greater than those calculated for a First Class Earthquake, that is the maximum provided for by the Italian Earthquake regulation. The results obtained during these tests represent the scientific confirmation of what has already been experimented in nature many times.

	Cyclone resistance Buildings realized with the KMG^® system in areas with high risk of cyclones have proved, throughout the years, their capacity to withstand the passing of the most destroying cyclones, thus confirming the high resistance of the KMG^® buildings to the complex strains and thrusts of the force generated by cyclones.

	Soundproofing The soundproofing of the KMG^® panels represents one of the advantages of the building system. The possible application of acoustic insulation materials onto the panel (such as cork, cocoa fibre, plasterboard, rock wool, etc…) optimizes the insulation of the walls in accordance with the hardest acoustic legislation.

	Wide choice of finishing As for their finishing, the walls realized with the KMG^® panels can be completed both with the application of a thickness covering directly on the raw plaster and, as an alternative or a traditional paint on the smoothened plaster. Finishing of any type are possible without any limitation.