We're ready to build a second floor on our school in Cienfuegos - and we're looking for cotizaciones from different companies.
An engineer came today and told me he'd do a "construccion liviano" - block walls for the outer walls, but the classroom division could be: 1) wood frame, foam filling with mesh and plaster; 2) wood frame, foam filling (which i'm assuming is similar to fiberglass?) and either sheet rock or plywood. In my layperson mind, this sounds like a good plan as we don't need super strong/super thick divisions between classrooms - and I know that these types of "framed"walls are fairly popular in the states, but I don't know how they would hold up here or what might be some of the problems we might have.
(The roof would be steel beams and alucin).
Suggestions?
An engineer came today and told me he'd do a "construccion liviano" - block walls for the outer walls, but the classroom division could be: 1) wood frame, foam filling with mesh and plaster; 2) wood frame, foam filling (which i'm assuming is similar to fiberglass?) and either sheet rock or plywood. In my layperson mind, this sounds like a good plan as we don't need super strong/super thick divisions between classrooms - and I know that these types of "framed"walls are fairly popular in the states, but I don't know how they would hold up here or what might be some of the problems we might have.
(The roof would be steel beams and alucin).
Suggestions?