The system
The MIB MetSIP Panel has a 20 year history of development and construction.
MIB MetSIP is a tried and tested innovative, versatile, prefabricated structural building system. It provides a cost effective solution to architects, developers and contractors who are looking to produce high quality buildings, reduce building schedules and meet targets. This will allow them to significantly reduce costs.
The MIB MetSIP system can reduce the overall construction period by up to 40%. The storey-high MIB MetSIP wall panel system is an ideal alternative to conventional brick and blockwork, steel or timber frame construction.
Additional to its speed of build, MIB MetSIP combines excellent structural qualities, insulation values and air-tightness properties.
Although pre-fabricated MIB MetSIP can be used on any straight-line plan form. It is easily cut or shaped on site to any dimension, and can be married to any other form of construction.
The Panel
An MIB MetSIP Panel is comprised of two skins of cement-particle board with a rigid cell urethane core. Embedded in the core there are two secondary structural studs, the whole creates a composite structural unit, not a laminate. The panels incorporate tongue and grooved edges with integral closure mechanisms also embedded into the urethane core. As the closure mechanisms operate they draw the adjacent panels together forming a stable and airtight connection.
Construction
Individual MIB MetSIP Panels are connected together with the closing / locking mechanisms and fixed into a base channel. The base channel is anchored down into the concrete raft, plank, beam & block or suspended floor. When erected the wall panels are capped with an inverted channel onto which the next floor or roof structure is installed.
Window openings are created by installing a smaller piece of MIB MetSIP Panel below the window and another piece above the window, these are both fixed to the adjacent panel using brackets.
Brickwork or any other chosen facing material is fixed to the MIB MetSIP wall using standard proprietary wall ties. Other facings such as insulated render, timber and brickslips can also be applied.
As Infill
Due to the structural integrity of MIB MetSIP, it can be used as infill to multi-storey steel or concrete frame buildings.
