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“lglu” is a market leading product that was created and patented for the realization of sanitary spaces, ventilated cavities, under-floor cavities, ventilated floors and roofs during the construction and restructuring of civil and industrial buildings.

This result of an ingenious idea dating back to 1993 considerably improved building methods.

The innovative capacity of Iglu has received numerous successes and recognitions on a national and international level, quickly confirming it as a product of excellence in the building world.

The modular, plastic Iglu formworks, placed side by side in sequence according to a predefined direction, make it easy to quickly create a self-supporting pedestrian platform above which a layer of is cast in order to easily and economically create a ventilated slab placed on pillars with the below cavity area available for the passage of systems but above all ventilated to counteract rising humidity and radioactive gases.

The problem for buildings Rising moisture

The problem of rising moisture from the ground and its results on the integrity of the structures and the healthiness of the inner rooms has been well known since antique Rome.

At those times, the under-floor cavities were created by, raising the floor a few centimeters using amphoras or low walls.

This created a cavity that was connected to the outside with ventilation inlets in order to guarantee. Ventilation (so-called ventilated wall cavity).

This formed the basis for what is today commonly called a “sanitary space”. The Roman technique has info uenced, if not inspired, technicians and designers in all times who have been able to diligently apply this constructive solution, recommending it and applying it to new builds and reconstruction projections.