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Better to build with, better by design, and better to live in, Hebel is the ideal choice for your next home or low rise multi-residential development.

Hebel’s range of cladding, wall, floor and fencing systems provide outstanding benefits to homeowners.

Quick to install without compromising on quality, it’s beautiful, solid and comfortable to live in.

Boasting incredible thermal properties, a home built with Hebel stays cool in summer and warm in winter, saving you in energy costs. Great acoustic performance means a reduction in noise between rooms, and floors, creating a quiet and peaceful home. And all Hebel products are non-combustible making it the safe and secure choice.

Better still, Hebel is an environmentally friendly product, making it the smart choice.

You’ll love coming home to Hebel.

Benefits

Hebel products and systems deliver a range of outstanding benefits to homeowners and builders.

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Applications

  • External Walls
  • Intertenancy Walls
  • Floors
  • Fences
  • DIY

Hebel Systems

External Walls

Hebel’s external wall systems are strong and solid, provide superior thermal insulation, are fast to install and look fantastic too.

The PowerPanelXL system uses a 75mm panel delivering around 25% better thermal insulation than a vented AAC system – and 31% better than brick veneer.

The PowerPanel50 system provides approximately 12% better thermal insulation than a vented AAC system – and 18% better than brick veneer.

Panels are fixed to steel or timber frames without the need or cost of an additional thermal break. The corrosion-protected steel reinforced Hebel AAC panels are extremely robust and non-combustible, making them ideal for bushfire prone areas.

Hebel’s PowerBlock+ system is the ideal alternative to concrete block construction offering significant increases in thermal performance, providing an extremely solid masonry home that’s comfortable to live in.

All three systems offer great acoustic performance, reducing noise transmission from external sources such as traffic, for a quieter home. The superior thermal properties mean your house is more comfortable to live in and there is less reliance on heating and cooling. 

Hebel external wall systems give you a solid finish that can be rendered in a wide range of colours, with the design flexibility to achieve the look and street appeal you want.

System Application Fire Acoustic STC Acoustic Rw Thermal Wall thickness
label PowerPanel50 Fire 30/30/30 Acoustic STC 41 to 45 Acoustic Rw Rw + Ctr 36 to 39 Thermal R1.74 to R2.82 Wall thickness 160mm to 190mm
label PowerPanelXL external wall system Fire 180/180/180 Acoustic STC 42 to 46 Acoustic Rw Rw + Ctr 35 to 39 Thermal R2.02 to R3.13 Wall thickness 185mm to 215mm
label PowerBlock+ external wall system Fire up to 240/240/240 Acoustic STC 46 for a 250mm block Acoustic Rw Rw + Ctr 35 to 42 Thermal R2.04 to R4.19 Wall thickness 250mm to 356mm*

*Values are quoted for Hebel PowerBlock+ built-up system

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Intertenancy Walls

Hebel’s PowerPanelXL Intertenancy wall system is compliant with the performance requirements of the NZ Building Code (NZBC) for low rise multi-residential frame construction.  

Consisting of a non-load bearing PowerPanelXL partition, installed vertically and secured between the structural load-bearing steel or timber framing, the PowerPanelXL intertenancy wall system is not affected by wet weather during installation and can be made to length in the factory, resulting in efficient installation and construction.

The Intertenancy wall system uses an aluminum bracket to provide discontinuous construction for superior acoustic separation. This provides the ability to have back to back services or joinery between tenancies.

System Application Fire rating Acoustic STC Acoustic Rw Wall thickness
label PowerPanelXL party wall system Fire rating 90/90/90 (Loadbearing stud frame) OR -/90/90 (Non-loadbearing stud frame)   Acoustic STC 44 to 70 (90mm wall framing) Acoustic Rw Rw + Ctr 35 - 58 (90mm wall framing) Wall thickness 315 - 321mm* Discontinuous construction (90mm wall framing)

*Depending on stud and cavity selection

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Floors

Hebel’s PowerFloor system offers exceptional benefits for homeowners, delivering the solid feel of a concrete floor at a lower cost.

The Hebel PowerFloor system consists of 75mm panels containing steel reinforcement with an anti-corrosion protection layer, to ensure maximum strength and durability. These panels are installed over steel or timber joists to provide an outstanding flooring solution for suspended ground floors or mid-floors with excellent thermal and acoustic performance. Once finished, the Hebel PowerFloor system provides a solid base for just about any floor covering, without the ‘squeak and bounce’ associated with particleboard, and without the price tag of concrete floors

System Application Fire Acoustic STC Acoustic Rw Thermal Floor thickness (mm)
label PowerFloor system Fire Up to 240 minutes from above, up to 90 minutes from below (with approved CSR Gyprock ceiling) Acoustic STC No ceiling 33 to 37
With ceiling 54 to 62 		Acoustic Rw No ceiling Rw + Ctr 30 to 33, Lnw + Cl 83 to 45
With ceiling Rw + Ctr 48 to 54, Lnw + Cl 70 to 32 		Thermal R0.60 - 4.07 Floor thickness (mm) 75mm

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Fences

Hebel PowerFence provides an innovative, solid fencing system that’s attractive, versatile and easy to install – adding the perfect touch to your home.

Ideal for renovators, because of the lightweight panels and simple construction method, PowerFence uses standard 2400 or 1800 x 600 x 75mm panels, steel brackets and steel posts which can be easily and quickly erected without the need for excavation or strip footing.

Perfect for boundary fencing and as an alternative to standard masonry for front fences.

Coatings

Building with Hebel offers you a clean, modern palette to achieve the exterior look you want in a range of textures, finishes and colours. Find out more about which render and coatings systems work best with your Hebel home.

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Peter & Anastasia Homeowner

The great thing about Hebel PowerFloor is that you get the solidness, as well as thermal and acoustic performance between floors that you wouldn’t get from any other product

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Take a peek inside Peter and Anastasia’s beautiful modern family home.

Janice Gillion

The great thing about my Hebel home is that it’s so energy efficient and a comfortable home to live in, in both summer and winter

Achieving great designs using Hebel

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John

People come and they say it’s a great house, it’s feels really lovely and I say it’s a Hebel house and I’m quite proud of that actually

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Set in the Southern Highlands of Bundanoon, this Spanish inspired house has stood the test of time. John and his partner Kim built their home 17 years ago and are still in love with the timeless and individual design.

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Downloads

To learn more about our products and systems, search the categories below to view our range of Hebel guides, manuals, brochures and files.

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Codemark Certificates

CSR Hebel® Powerfloor Systems

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Brochures

Cladding external walls with Hebel PowerPanel

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CAD Files

NZ Powerfloor CAD Details - DWG

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Design & Installation Guides

PowerPanel50 External Wall System - New Zealand Design and Installation Guide

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MSDS Files

SDS Hebel Autoclaved Aerated Concrete (NZ)

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General Technical Manuals

Hebel Tech Man - Pt1 Products

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The CSR Hebel Technical Manual has been prepared as a source of information to provide general guidance to consultants.
The contents of the Technical Manual are provided with consideration to and in accordance with the relevant Australian standards, legislative requirements and building regulations. It is the responsibility of the user to ensure that the information provided in this manual is appropriate and similarly conforms to the relevant New Zealand Standards, legislative requirements and building regulations.

Use of Technical Manual for Hebel AAC Block Structures
In New Zealand, AAC block structures require specific engineering design. Such design must be undertaken by a suitably qualified structural engineer. Furthermore, specification of control joint requirements & locations in Hebel AAC block structures must be assessed and verified by the structural engineer with consideration to the information within the Technical Manual and to the relevant masonry block Standards and Codes of Practice existing in New Zealand, specifically with reference to seismic design.

FAQs

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Q. How does Hebel perform when it comes to keeping my house warm in winter and cool in summer?

Hebel panels have superior insulation qualities compared to other masonry products, this means that it keeps your home warmer in winter and cooler in summer with less of a reliance on heaters and air-conditioning and saving you in energy costs.

Q. Is Hebel as strong as brick?

Hebel panels contain anti-corrosion steel reinforcement, making them strong, solid and a reliable choice for building your home. Tests have shown that Hebel and traditional brick have a similar impact resistance.

Q. I’ve heard Hebel cracks - is that true?

Hebel is a strong, solid building product, with a similar impact resistance to traditional brick. To prevent or minimise cracking, ensure that you use an recommended acrylic render system, applied by an experienced renderer.

Q. How long has Hebel been around for?

Hebel is a strong building product made from autoclaved aerated concrete (AAC). AAC was developed in Scandinavia over 70 years ago and is now used widely across the world.

CSR Hebel is Australia’s only manufacturer of AAC with over 25 years of experience in designing and developing AAC systems for Australian buildings.

Q. Is Hebel the same as Polystyrene cladding?

No, Hebel is a building product made from autoclaved aerated concrete (AAC) and contains steel mesh, coated with an anti-corrosion protection layer for maximum strength and durability. Hebel boasts great environmental benefits, is a non-combustible product and has high fire resistance, not to mention it reduces noise and is great for keeping your house warm in winter and cool in summer.

Q. I’ve heard it’s quicker to build in Hebel than other masonry products, is that true?

Installing one Hebel panel is the equivalent to laying 75 bricks, which means a 150m2 home can be go up as quickly as 3 days when installed by experienced Hebel installers. Building with Hebel means faster construction without sacrificing on quality.

Q. Why would I use Hebel for my floors?

Hebel PowerFloor is a great choice of flooring solution with it’s high-performing acoustic and thermal benefits. This means less noise between floors and none of the squeak or bounce associated with particleboard flooring. Hebel PowerFloor can be easily installed by onsite tradesman such as carpenters and sits well beneath any floor covering of your choice such as tiles, carpets or strip timber flooring.

Q. How do I care for the external surface of my Hebel home?

Hebel walls should be washed down as a minimum once a year with clean water. This process removes any dirt or other build-up that has gathered on the coating.

Q. I’ve built my house in Hebel – can I fix items like external lights or speakers to it?

We are often asked about fixings! Holes can be drilled in Hebel walls using a masonry drill bit fitted to a standard (not rotary hammer) drill. Once the penetration has been filled with the required cables or the like, the gap around the penetration should be filled with a reputable flexible sealant such as Sikaflex polyurethane sealant. Below is a table which outlines what you need for common fixings to Hebel such as outdoor lighting and clothes lines.

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Q. If I damage my Hebel wall, how do I repair it?

Surface knocks and scratches can be touched up with the same surface coating finish that was applied at construction, like any masonry wall. In the event you are unsure, contact your builder for advice.

If the damage extends beyond the coating system and into the Hebel wall, professional advice should be sought to ensure the damage has not compromised the integrity of the wall.

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Building with Hebel

Wanting to install Hebel in a house? Learn how to safely and expertly cut, fix, join, and coat Hebel in our easy-to-follow guide.

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