Bond Beam Options

There are several bond beam options when designing or building with Omni Block. The detail below is a common bond beam within the Omni Block library of details. This bond beam example uses a standard bond beam CMU with horizontal rebar and grout. This example shows the bond beam being used as a ledger course but also could be used in top of wall situations.

The bond beam example at left shows an Omni Block stretcher block insulated within the exterior cavity side with one horizontal #5 rebar that will be grouted before completion on the interior cavity side.

This strategy is ideally used to maintain insulation resistance. Structural engineers that use the 6″ tables from The Masonry Society (TMS) handbook routinely use this example for mid-wall, above window and door openings (excluding large spans such as a garage door) and top of wall conditions. Ultimately the use of this strategy is deferred to the structural engineer on the project.

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