Speedpanel
Our system- Trade
- Dry. Panels click together
- Finish
- Pre-finished coloured steel available
- Weight
- From 30 kg/m²
- Curing
- None
- Follow-on trades
- Start straight away
- Floor impact
- Clean, no water, minimal waste
Speedpanel installation · Sydney
Fire and acoustic walls,
Fire and acoustic walls,
without the mortar or render.
Speedpanel® fire and acoustic rated walls, installed on commercial and multi-residential projects across Sydney.
- −/240/240Fire resistance, up to
- Rw 80Acoustic rating, up to
- 30 kg/m²Panel weight, from
- 8 mPanel length, up to
The system
What Speedpanel is, and why it beats Hebel on site
A steel shell around a lightweight aerated cement core. Panels click together tongue-and-groove, vertically or horizontally, in lengths up to eight metres. Built to replace non-load-bearing blockwork.
DryNo water on the floor
Hebel and blockwork are wet trades. They need adhesive or mortar, then jointing, then curing, then render and paint before anything else can touch the wall. They're heavy, which often drives extra structural support. And they hold an area of the floor hostage while they dry.
Speedpanel is a dry trade. Panels arrive cut to length and go up clicked together. Coloured-steel panels come pre-finished, so no render, no set and no paint. The wall is done when it's up.
That difference is the whole argument. Not the panel, the programme.
| On site | Speedpanel | Hebel / AAC | Blockwork |
|---|---|---|---|
| Trade | Dry. Panels click together | Wet. Adhesive and jointing | Wet. Mortar |
| Finish | Pre-finished coloured steel available | Render and paint required | Render and paint required |
| Weight | From 30 kg/m² | Heavier, can drive extra structural support | Heaviest of the three |
| Curing | None | Jointing and render must cure | Mortar and render must cure |
| Follow-on trades | Start straight away | Wait for render and paint | Wait for render and paint |
| Floor impact | Clean, no water, minimal waste | Wet area, dust, clean-up | Wet area, dust, heavy clean-up |
The same non-load-bearing wall, three ways
Hebel / AAC
- Trade
- Wet. Adhesive and jointing
- Finish
- Render and paint required
- Weight
- Heavier, can drive extra structural support
- Curing
- Jointing and render must cure
- Follow-on trades
- Wait for render and paint
- Floor impact
- Wet area, dust, clean-up
Blockwork
- Trade
- Wet. Mortar
- Finish
- Render and paint required
- Weight
- Heaviest of the three
- Curing
- Mortar and render must cure
- Follow-on trades
- Wait for render and paint
- Floor impact
- Wet area, dust, heavy clean-up
Ratings vary by panel profile and wall system. We confirm the certified system for your build before quoting.
Our method
Why we come in under a gyprock crew
Most builders default to a plasterboard crew, because that's who they know. On a fire or acoustic wall, that's the expensive option once you count everyone who has to follow them.
01
Set-out
We come to site, take the set-out off your drawings and confirm the certified system that meets your FRL and Rw.
02
Cut to length
Panels ordered to size and delivered to the floor. No cutting yard, no stockpile on your slab.
03
Install
Track down, panels clicked in, fixed off. What takes a gyprock crew days of framing, sheeting and setting goes up in a fraction of that.
04
Seal & hand over
Every pipe, cable and duct passing through the wall is fire-sealed to the certified system, then handed over with the documentation your certifier asks for.
OneCrew, trade and price
You're not comparing one trade against one trade
A framed and sheeted fire wall isn't a single trade. It's a framer, a sheeter, a setter, a painter, a fire-sealing contractor, and the certifier who signs off the lot. Every hand-over is a delay and a margin.
We quote the finished, certified wall as one line. One crew comes in, the wall goes up, the penetrations get detailed, you get the paperwork. Put our rate per square metre against five trades, not one. That is where the money actually is.
And because the wall is finished the moment it's up, the programme behind it doesn't wait. On a tight floor cycle that's usually worth more than the line item.
Faster floor cycles
No curing, no render, no return visits. The wall is complete on the day, so the trade behind you isn't standing around.
One trade, one price
No coordinating five subcontractors around a single wall, and no gaps between them for something to go wrong.
Certified and documented
Installed to the tested and certified system, handed over with the documentation your certifier needs.
Track record
Builders we've worked for
We work directly for head contractors on commercial and multi-residential projects around Sydney.
- Level 33 Family-run builder-developer working across the coastline and cityscapes of New South Wales since 1999. Opens level33.com.au in a new tab
- Buildview Corp Design, development and construction, with multi-residential projects across southern and western Sydney. Opens buildview.net.au in a new tab
- Waterside Sydney builder established in 1995, specialising in high-rise and multi-residential apartment construction. Opens watersideconstructions.com.au in a new tab
Company descriptions are taken from each builder's own website.
Get in touch
Free consultation
Send the drawings or the wall schedule. We'll come back with a rate per square metre and a realistic programme. No obligation, no fee.
Call us
Quickest way to an answer. Tell us the job and the wall type and we'll tell you straight away what we can do.
0459 313 246Email us
Attach the drawings, the wall schedule or the fire engineer's report, whatever you have got.
contact@sydneysp.com.au