CorPanel™ is a composite panel: calcium-silicate facing boards bonded to both faces of the CorCell™ matrix, a cementitious core carrying expanded polystyrene. One element does the work of an entire wall stack — and it does it in every plane of the enclosure.
Foundation walls. Floor underlay. Roof underlay. Interior partitions. Exterior walls. A building can be wrapped in a single system, corner to corner and floor to roof — a full 360° enclosure from one supplier, on one schedule. Application on any given project is set with the engineer of record, which is how a panel becomes a foundation, a floor, a roof or a wall on the drawings.
A conventional exterior wall is a stack of trades. Every interface in it is a coordination item and a place for the detail to go wrong on site.
Framing, sheathing, insulation, air barrier, interior substrate — each layer arrives on its own schedule, from its own supplier, with its own tolerance. CorPanel™ collapses that stack into a single manufactured element: the CorCell™ matrix bonded between two calcium-silicate faces, load-bearing in the Standard and Reinforced constructions, and cut on site with standard tools.
Then it is closed and finished. Joints are either taped or meshed over, as the engineer of record specifies, which works the surface and the panels into one continuous plane. From there the finish is open — paint, plaster, tile, stone, millwork, whatever the design asks for. Drywall becomes a choice rather than a requirement.
It is panel-based construction, it reduces on-site labour compared with conventional stick framing, and it is installed by trained and licensed installers — crews drawn from the trades already working residential sites, trained and licensed to the system rather than recruited from a new trade.
Construction cost is additive because construction is additive. Take the layers out of the wall and their trades, mobilisations and interfaces go with them — fewer scopes, not less house.
Panels cut cleanly on site with standard tools. Openings, returns, reveals and the narrow piers between windows are executed in the field — no special fabrication, no lead time attached to a change. The constraint on the elevation is the structure, not the panel.
The faces are dense and planar out of the mould. No stud telegraphing, no nail pop, no substrate movement to chase — which matters most on the long uninterrupted planes that modern residential work depends on.
One element. No cavity, no batt, nothing added outboard. Assembly thickness is panel thickness, so net area and proportion survive the trip from drawing to site.
Calcium-silicate facing boards bonded to a cementitious core carrying expanded polystyrene — a hard mineral-based face over a light core, manufactured as one piece, and solid through its section with no cavity behind either face.
CorPanel™ Standard at 150 mm weighs 85 kg/m² ±5 — 117 kg per panel. A small crew sets panels by hand on a house, on a constrained lot, on difficult grade. Lift them where the project calls for lifting. The same element serves a four-storey residence, a warehouse bay at thirty-foot elevation, and the tower in between — the handling method follows the building, not the other way round.
One vendor, one submittal package, one supply conversation, one number to call when a detail needs an answer — instead of five.
One core technology, three CorPanel™ variants. The name on the drawing tells the engineer exactly what he is designing with — and there is one for every job the building asks of CorPanel™.
The working panel of the system, and the default where a drawing does not say otherwise.
The same panel with reinforcement cast in, for where the project asks more of the element.
The non-load-bearing infill panel, specified as a filler panel in the manner of a glass curtain wall.
Most developers bring their own engineer. Corvea brings one too — and the two of them settle the assembly before it is built, for the building it is built into.
On every project, the assembly is reviewed and stamped by the licensed structural engineer of record — or the authorized project engineer — at that project's details, under that engineer's own seal, to the code in force where it is built.
That is the standard we hold ourselves to, and it is the foundation of liability protection for you, for the owner, and for the authority having jurisdiction. It also means the panel you draw is the panel an engineer has signed for, on your project, at your details.
Where a developer brings his own engineer, which is most projects, Corvea's engineer of record coordinates with his — from the first section through to the sealed submission.
Your engineer has a counterpart. Structural, fire and thermal questions are taken up engineer to engineer once a project is in discussion, and Corvea's engineer of record stays on call for the duration. Whether CorPanel™ is used structurally on a given project is determined by the engineer of record for that project.
Built in Vanuatu with the standard construction. The build sequence is shown alongside the finished house, because the assembly is what a specifier needs to see.
Vanuatu sits in a cyclone belt with year-round humidity. The photographs below are site records of a completed private residence: they show the geometry, the surface off the panel, and the erection method.
A private residence in the Caribbean, built on a steel frame down a steep mountain slope — the kind of site where every element arrives by hand and a wall system is judged by what a small crew can carry and set.
The build sequence runs from bare slope to finished home: frame, deck and slab, panel walls, then cladding and fit-out. The photographs are site records, not renderings.
Two short site videos from Alberta — an agricultural utility building and a commercial building. Panels handled, set and closed at speed, at a scale beyond the house: sequence and pace that still photography cannot convey.
Panel erection and envelope closure on a utility structure. Useful for reading crew size, panel handling and sequence.
Watch videoLarger-format commercial application. Continuous wall runs, and the finished panel face before treatment.
Watch videoThe useful next step is a technical session with our engineering lead rather than more collateral. We can walk a wall section and a window jamb detail at your drawing scale, take your engineer's questions directly, and set the assembly against the building you are actually drawing.
Bring the detail you are least sure of. That is the one worth an hour.