Self-supporting construction element of expanded plastics, in particular for manufacturing floor elements and walls of buildings in general

A self-supporting construction element of expanded plastics, comprising:

• a) a central body, substantially parallelepipedic in shape, provided with opposite faces;
• b) a plurality of reinforcing section bars transversely extending across the central body between said opposite faces embedded in the expanded plastics;
• the reinforcing section bars being substantially Z-shaped and arranged in mirror image relationship about a longitudinal plane of symmetry of the construction element and comprising a central portion and a pair of respectively lower and upper fins extending perpendicularly in opposite directions from the ends of the central portion;
• at least one of said lower and upper fins lying flush with and substantially parallel to at least one of said opposite faces of the construction element;
• and
• c) a sheet-like member for supporting at least one layer of a suitable covering material associated to said at least one fin lying flush with and substantially parallel to at least one of the faces of said construction element.

A construction assembly comprising:

• a plurality of element of expanded plastics arranged side-by-side, said element including:
• a) a central body, substantially parallelepipedic in shape, provided with opposite upper and lower faces and with opposite lateral sides;
• b) at least one reinforcing section bar transversely extending across the central body between said upper and lower faces and embedded in the expanded plastics;
• c) a sheet-like member for supporting at least one layer of a suitable covering material, said sheet-like member being associated to a fin of said reinforcing section bar lying flush with and substantially parallel to at least one of the faces of said construction element;
• a concrete casting housed in a cavity defined between said opposite lateral sides of adjacent element of said plurality of elements of expanded plastics;
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• means for stably anchoring the sheet-like member to said concrete casting.

A construction assembly for erecting bearing and partition walls in a building comprising:

• a plurality of wall elements of expanded plastics arranged side-by-side, said elements including:
• a) a central body, substantially parallelepipedic in shape, provided with opposite upper and lower faces and with opposite lateral sides and with at least one cavity;
• b) at least one reinforcing section bar transversely extending across the central body between said upper and lower faces and embedded in the expanded plastics;
• c) a sheet-like member for supporting at least one layer of a suitable covering material, said sheet-like member being associated to a fin of said reinforcing section bar lying flush with and substantially parallel to at least one of the faces of said wall elements;
• and
• a concrete casting housed in the at least one cavity defined within the central body of said wall elements and between opposite lateral sides of adjacent elements of said plurality of wall elements of expanded plastics.