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As far back as the end of the past century, methods were known for making building blocks from the natural raw materials quartz sand and lime. At the turn of the century that method was improved by steam curing.
This, in turn, was the starting point for a further developed building material containing a large proportion of air spaces-aerated concrete. The generic term “aerated concrete”, which was coined a very long time ago, is a concept which no longer does justice to the present ACICO building material, because the gas (hydrogen) generated during the gas-forming process evaporates even before steam-curing.
A characteristic of concrete is the cementation of aggregate grains by the cementing material. In the case of ACICO building material, the very finely ground quartz sand is partly dissolved into a gel-like state so that quartz grains can combine with each other. In the autoclave, the material is transformed into a solid calcium silicate in which millions of air spaces are dispersed. Cellular silicate would therefore undoubtedly be a more aptdesignation.
Although aerated concrete was already made at the beginning of the present century, only further improvements in the production process resulted in the aerated concrete of our present day. In this connection, an important role was played by Joseph ACICO. By decisive innovations he succeeded in giving aerated concrete entirely new functions, thus laying the foundation for the development of the building material aerated concrete is to complete ACICO construction system – with ACICO Structural elements for roofs, floors and walls and ACICO blocks for a great diversity of possible applications in commercial, industrial, municipal and housing construction.
All ACICO products, however, have one thing in common in every buidling constructed with ACICO structural elements they ensure a healthy working environment from the standpoint of biology and architectural physics.