Patent ID: 7814719

Claim:
Self-supporting construction element comprising: an elongated body made of expanded plastic material, substantially parallelepipedic and provided with respectively lower and upper opposite faces; at least one reinforcing section bar of the body made of expanded plastic material transversely extending in said body between said faces; wherein the elongated body made of expanded plastic material is provided with at least one longitudinal seat adapted to house said at least one reinforcing section bar; and where said at least one reinforcing section bar is provided at an upper side with a longitudinal projection which cooperates in abutment relationship with a respective longitudinal shoulder formed in said at least one longitudinal seat; and wherein the elongated body made of expanded plastic material is provided with a plurality of recesses formed within the body of expanded plastic material and open at an upper side for housing a concrete casting; and wherein said recesses are reciprocally spaced and aligned with one another at said at least one reinforcing section bar along a direction substantially parallel to the longitudinal axis of said body, and said upper side of said at least one reinforcing section bar extends in said recesses and in said at least one longitudinal seat.