Description |
Timber Formwork |
Light duty steel mould |
Heavy duty steel formwork |
Aluminium Formwork |
Formwork material |
12 - 18mm plywood |
2-3mm steel plate |
5-6mm steel plate |
4-8mm aluminium plate |
Formwork thickness |
12 - 18mm |
55mm |
80-85mm |
4mm |
Formwork weight |
10.5kg/sqm |
35-40kg/sqm |
80-85kg/sqm |
20-25kg/sqm |
Load Capacity |
30KN/sqm |
30KN/sqm |
60KN/sqm |
60KN/sqm |
Recycle use time |
5 |
100 |
250 |
300 |
Difficuty of work |
Easy |
Medium |
Difficult |
Easy |
Cost of maintanance |
Low |
Low |
High |
Low |
Construction efficiency |
Slow |
Slow |
Fast |
Fast |
Labour requirement |
Need skillful carpenter |
Skillful labour not required |
Skillful and trained personal |
Skillful labour not required |
Quality of concrete surface finishing |
Rough surface, low quality |
Rough surface better than timber |
Good finishing |
Good finishing |
Recovery value (Crap value) |
Lowest |
Low |
Medium |
High |
Heavey machinery requirement |
None |
None |
Reruired full time |
None |
Enviromental |
Not enviromental friendly, produce conctruction waste. |
Less construction waste |
Enviroment friendly |
Enviroment friendly |