Prefabricated Building Elements

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Prefabricated building elements need to be resilient, robust and add real value to the finished construction.

Our custom stone wool core insulation solutions are easily integrated into your manufacturing process, providing OEM offsite construction with seamless, high-quality results.

But partnering with ROCKWOOL Core Solutions¹ offers more than just bespoke insulation.

Our specialists act as an extension of your business, helping to optimise operations through best practice guidance, supply chain communication and quality assurance through testing.

Learn how ROCKWOOL Core Solutions can help you create sustainable, effective and energy-efficient solutions for your prefabricated building manufacture.

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Why do we need insulation for prefabricated building elements?

Modular and prefabricated buildings need to be just as energy efficient, fire resilient and noise resistant as other types of construction.

It can be far easier, however, to introduce fire protection, acoustic absorption and thermal regulation properties to prefabricated building elements pre-construction, ultimately improving the structure as a whole.

A partnership with ROCKWOOL Core Solutions can enhance the individual parts of prefabricated buildings offsite – before they are assembled. We work with you to create the best prefabricated elements possible, such as insulated precast concrete walls.

Integrating quality insulation at this stage avoids extra time, work and materials needed at a later stage, ensuring prefabricated buildings meet the needs of their occupants right away.

Our core stone wool insulation is²:

Customisable to your process needs, and according to the performance, dimension and/or mechanical strengths required for the building element
Highly durable
Highly sustainable and recyclable

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The amount of stone wool core insulation required will depend on the size and shape of the prefabricated building elements you manufacture.

As well as customising stone wool for physical feasibility, we can also manipulate the fibre orientation to deliver various performance enhancements and mechanical strengths³.

Our customised stone wool design capabilities can provide solutions that integrate into products of varying dimensions and performance focuses.

Specialists will support your operations along the way, from purchase order to quality satisfaction, to save time and reduce waste.

Stone wool enhances the thermal regulation of structures. By improving the energy efficiency of construction components for prefabricated buildings, you can pass on these energy savings to occupants.

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Why choose ROCKWOOL Core Solutions?

We provide core insulation solutions directly to OEM offsite construction, tailored to your needs for:

2D insulated elements – flat structures assembled into a modular construction.
3D or Modular Systems – full structures with walls, floors and ceilings that can be built from 2D systems.

Offering a unique consultative approach, we support you through our stone wool specialists – from product ordering to implementation – to ensure a seamless process that creates a high-quality end product.

We work alongside OEMs to:

Help you meet strict timelines
Optimise your process through just-in-time delivery and correct material volumes
Provide quality assurance during testing, regulation and certification stages
Offer customer service and supply chain communication throughout

ROCKWOOL core insulation also harnesses the 7 Strengths of Stone, providing benefits including:

Improved fire safety – A1 classified non-combustible insulation⁴.
Thermal properties – provides effective protection against both cold and heat⁵.
Acoustic performance – sound absorption helps to controls echo, while sound insulation stops noises travelling to other rooms⁶.

Our high-quality stone wool can improve the durability, fire resilience and acoustic absorption of prefabricated elements.

Custom core insulation is designed to effortlessly fit in with your manufacturing process, for easy integration. All solutions are rigorously tested and backed by Environmental Product Declarations (EPDs)⁷.

Our stone wool specialists support manufacturers to organise and optimise your operations, share expert knowledge for the integration of core insulation, and provide collaboration and unity during testing regulation and certification.

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ROCKWOOL Core Solutions European Business Director

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To ensure smooth and effective integration in your prefabricated building elements, we take great steps to learn your systems and processes before providing the best possible solution.

Our partnerships collaborate on process optimisation, application testing, packaging and certification.

Alongside this, ROCKWOOL Core Solutions and our stone wool specialists can:

Provide custom design solutions, including slabs, rolls, pipe sections and granulate, directly to OEMs.
Support with best practice guidelines for integrating stone wool cores into your prefabricated building components – for effective fire safety, noise reduction and thermal maintenance solutions.
Offer customer service and support online throughout the experience.

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Discover how The Power of & can work for you as an OEM!

At the ROCKWOOL Group, we ensure that all your products and systems will benefit from The Power of &. That’s because when you design one strength into a product with stone wool, you gain all the 7 Strengths of Stone. With ROCKWOOL Core Solutions as your partner, you also gain ‘&’ in many other ways, through qualities that set our organisation apart.

Sustainability and energy efficiency

Our stone wool core insulation helps offsite construction OEMs produce modular and prefabricated building components that are both energy efficient and sustainable.

This ultimately reduces energy consumption by those living and working in these structures, benefiting the environment and society at large.

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Stone wool can also be recycled again and again, without impacting its quality or performance⁸. This means you can remove it from a construction at the end of its life to reuse – boosting the circularity of the manufacturing and construction industries⁹.

Because we offer customised solutions, this further reduces waste during the integration of insulation – helping you hit any environmental targets you may have.

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FAQs

What are the advantages of prefabricated materials?

Creating prefabricated building components can save time, as work takes place offsite – parallel to what’s happening with the construction process. It can also ensure greater consistency, increase quality, and reduce waste.

Is it beneficial to install insulation in prefabricated building elements?

Yes. Quality insulation cores can greatly enhance the thermal and acoustic performance of the finished construction, especially in the case of stone wool – which also improves fire protection. Integrating stone wool insulation offsite ensures a high level of quality and consistency, giving the end user the ‘plug and play’ capability when arriving onsite.

Is prefabricated construction sustainable?

Upfront planning in the creation of prefabricated elements can lead to less materials being used to create the finished structure, and reduced waste. Integrating quality insulation during the manufacturing process also improves the energy efficiency and sustainability of finished buildings.