GEOCELL® Foam Glass Aggregate from Mike Wye & Associates

GEOCELL® Foam Glass is a high quality sustainable 100% recycled glass product suitable for a variety of building uses. Foam Glass is an extremely versatile product with unique characteristics of light weight, load bearing, draining and insulating properties. GEOCELL® Foam Glass comes in three forms:

1. FOAM GLASS GRAVEL is an insulation material for underground structures. Foamed glass

aggregate saves energy and contributes to a comfortable indoor environment. It is both economical and environmentally sound.
Used for
• GlassCrete (Limecrete) Insulated Floors
• Floor slabs
• Green roofs and landscaping (lightweight fill material)
• Slope stabilization
• Vaults
• Sports turf
• Backfilling of pools
• Garden decoration

2. FOAM GLASS BUBBLES are versatile insulating beads which can either be used with a binder
(such as natural hydraulic lime or cement), or on their own.

Used For
• Leveling of floors
• Leveling compound over cables and pipelines.
3. GROUNDFOAM is a superior load-bearing hardcore for civil engineering and road
construction
Used for
• Highways, Streets and Bridges
• Tunnels
• Insulation of pipelines

THE MANUFACTURING PROCESS.
The first step in the process is to crush the glass bottles into small pieces then into an extremely fine powder. After the material has been blended with natural foaming agents, it is dropped on the conveyor belt that feeds a high temperature kiln. The blend rises as it bakes and bubbles of gas released during the backing process follow a tortuous path as they escape, creating a network of pore cells in the material resulting in a rigid and highly porous foam with the desired physical properties. Once baking at close to 900°C is complete, the “foam glass cake” comes out of the kiln on
the conveyor belt to cool down. As soon as it reaches room temperature, the product cracks into smaller chunks, our GEOCELL® foam glass gravel.

BENEFITS
GEOCELL® Foam Glass is quicker to install than conventional methods cutting construction time and cost. The selection of appropriate insulation material is especially crucial in old buildings.GEOCELL® Foam Glass combines a drainage layer and insulation in a single product, thus reducing building height. Moreover, GEOCELL® is diffusible, an important property for an
insulating material when humidity is an issue. Suitable for thermal insulation under the foundation slab of single/multi family houses, production halls, schools, swimming pools etc.
GEOCELL® is completely unaffected by water and environmentally green. GEOCELL® is made from waste glass that can be reused or recycled at any time.

• EXCELLENT INSULATION VALUES
  The large number of enclosed cells in each foam glass pellet, ensures excellent
  insulation characteristics. lambda = 0.08 w/mK.
•  INCREDIBLY STRONG
  Due to its glass cell structure, GEOCELL® provides excellent compressive
  strength.
• NON-CAPILLARY, NON COMBUSTIBLE
  Cellular glass is comprised of closed cells that do not absorb water. Classified as
  an A1 building material.
• PERMANENTLY STABLE
  Stability, durability, resistance against insects and rodents.
• SUSTAINABLE AND ENVIRONMENTALLY FRIENDLY
  Made from 100% recycled glass inert and essentially pH-neutral.
• CE CERTIFICATION: CE mark
  GEOCELL® declaration that the product meets the requirements of the applicable
  EC directives.

Foamed glass insulation aggregate is used in the same way as coated clay aggregate, but is capable of being used as a load bearing hardcore. It also offers better insulation (lambda/k alue=          0.08 – approximately 20% better in thermal performance than lightweight expanded clay aggregate). It therefore needs less depth for a similar thermal performance.

MIKE WYE & ASSOCIATES
Mike Wye & Associates are passionate about sustainable and environmentally conscious
construction.
We’re one of the foremost UK suppliers of natural hydraulic limes and natural insulation materials such as recycled foam glass, cork, wood fibre boards and sheep’s wool at unbeatable prices. We also manufacture and supply lime mortars and plasters for a range of applications on both traditional and new build properties, together with a wide range of natural paints and decorating products that are better for our health, better for the health of the building and better for the environment, including the beautiful Earthborn and Kreidezeit ranges.  Our own building conservation team specialise in cob and stone repair and eco-builds. Therefore much of our practical and technical advice is based upon real world experience of the products we supply.
Mike Wye & Associates have supplied thousands of traditional building repair, renovation and ecobuild projects which include many prestigious national projects such as: The Queens Chapel at Buckingham Palace, The Royal Opera House, Windsor Castle, Ashton Court and Spitalfields Historic Buildings Trust.
If you’d like to place an order or need advice on traditional and or sustainable building methods and materials please phone one of our helpful technical sales staff on: 01409 281644 or email us
on sales@mikewye.co.uk or visit our website at www.mikewye.co.uk