Light Transmitting Concrete!!!

This is a new age concrete used for constructing walls and slabs. The major comeback in this concrete is that it allows the light to transmit through the concrete wall which helps in reducing the power consumption during the day time.

This new age concrete has same strength as the concrete which we are using now. This concrete is made up of fine cement and optical fibres. Due to this,Natural and artificial light sources create a fascinating atmosphere of light shadows as well as colours and shapes.


Some of the features of the Light Transmitting Concrete are
· Incombustible Building material 
· high thermal resistance
· complies fire resistance, depending on use-case
· UV-resistant due to top quality optical fibres
· high mechanical resilience
· 100% recyclable
· convenient lighting effects of the concrete area due to the optical fibres


It can be produced as prefabricated building blocks and panels.  Due to the small size of the fibres, they blend into concrete becoming a component of the material like small pieces of aggregate.  In this manner, the result is not only two materials - glass in concrete - mixed, but a third, new material, which is homogeneous in its inner structure and on its main surfaces as well.
The glass fibres lead light by points between the two sides of the blocks.  Because of their parallel position, the light-information on the brighter side of such a wall appears unchanged on the darker side. The most interesting form of this phenomenon is probably the sharp display of shadows on the opposing side of the wall. Moreover, the colour of the light also remains the same.

Thousands of optical glass fibres form a matrix and run parallel to each other between the two main surfaces of each block.  The proportion of the fibres is very small (4%) compared to the total volume of the blocks. Moreover, these fibres mingle in the concrete because of their insignificant size, and they become a structural component as a kind of modest aggregate. Therefore, the surface of the blocks remains homogeneous concrete.  In theory, a wall structure built from light-transmitting concrete can be several meters thick, because the fibres work without almost any loss in light up until 20 meters.  Load-bearing structures can be also built of these blocks, since glass fibres do not have a negative effect on the well-known high compressive strength value of concrete.  The blocks can be produced in various sizes and with embedded heat-isolation.


This concrete is best suitable for the Energy Efficient industrial and Well Defined Architectural Buildings like Hotels, Shopping Malls, etc.,


A Small block can also be used as a design element for creating a fascinaitng atmosphere of light.

Some of the Products of this kind are


1.Litracon™ was invented by Hungarian architect Áron LOSONCZI in 2001.  Litracon™ is protected by Swedish patent and other patents are also pending in other jurist regions.
2. LUCEM^® 







courtesy : Litracon and LUCEM