Scope
This document specifies the properties, performance and test methods of factory made, nonload bearing hollow concrete shuttering blocks made from normal weight or lightweight aggregates or a combination of both. Shuttering blocks may include vertical or horizontal interlocking features and factory installed supplementary insulation. Shuttering blocks are intended to be used to form walls and partitions when filled with concrete or mortar. Concrete shuttering blocks rely on a concrete or mortar infill for their structural performance and are not intended to be used unfilled.
This document does not cover masonry units covered in EN 771-3.
Purpose
CEN/TC 229 – Precast concrete products
• having considered the proposal for a new work item as documented in CEN/TC 229 N 1961
• having considered the Guidance - Adoption of a new work item in a CEN Technical Committee as documented in the BOSS
• decides to register the subject described below as a potential future new work item in its programme of work (at the preliminary stage (00.60 = date of decision)).
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