Reinforced Concrete vs Structural Concrete Insulated Panels Performance and Cost Comparison for 4-story Building

Abstract

This paper presents the modeling of a 4- story building to compare the structural behavior of reinforced concrete (RC) versus the structural concrete insulated panels (SCIPS) under the code required loads and deflection requirements. The model analysis has been performed according to IBC 2018, ASCE7-16, and ACI318-14. Both models were created on ETABS to be evaluated under the gravity, wind, and seismic loads. The objective is to evaluate if the RC and SCIPS can perform under the code requirements and compare the behavior and cost of both systems. A grey shell cost calculation was performed to include on the evaluation the cost difference for both systems. As a conclusion both systems can perform under the code prescribed loads, but they have a cost difference being the SCIPs slightly more expensive. Key Terms— Deflection, Design, Drift, SCIP Panels.