For a very long time, clay brick and concrete block walls have been the dominant wall form in the construction industry, but in recent years, more and more contractors are starting to compare EPS cement sandwich wall panel with traditional brick wall and gradually shift their preference to this new composite material. The most intuitive difference between the two lies in construction speed. To build 100 square meters of traditional brick wall, a masonry team usually needs 7 to 10 days of work, including mixing mortar, laying bricks, watering for curing and subsequent plastering work. In sharp contrast, installing 100 square meters of EPS cement sandwich wall panel only takes 2 workers 1 day to complete, and the panel surface is already very flat after installation, which only needs a very thin layer of putty to finish, completely eliminating the time-consuming full-thickness plastering process.

In terms of comprehensive cost calculation, EPS cement sandwich wall panel also shows obvious advantages over traditional brick wall. Although the unit material price of a single EPS cement sandwich wall panel may be slightly higher than that of bricks, when you calculate the total cost including structural load reduction, labor cost, construction period management cost and later energy consumption cost, the total cost of using EPS cement sandwich wall panel can be 15% to 25% lower than using traditional brick wall. The thermal insulation performance of EPS cement sandwich wall panel is several times better than that of solid brick wall: the thermal conductivity of the panel is far lower than that of brick, which means the wall can provide much better thermal insulation effect with thinner thickness, leaving more usable floor area for the building. For a construction project with a total floor area of tens of thousands of square meters, the extra usable space brought by thinner walls can create considerable additional commercial value.

In terms of durability and later maintenance, both traditional brick wall and EPS cement sandwich wall panel can achieve a service life of more than 50 years under correct use conditions, but EPS cement sandwich wall panel is lighter, easier to renovate, and will not produce the common quality problems of brick walls such as hollowing, cracking and falling off caused by mortar aging. After a comprehensive comparison, it is not difficult to see that EPS cement sandwich wall panel is a more modern, efficient and economical wall solution that can better meet the development needs of the construction industry today.