Patent ID: 8549808

Claim:
A structural element for use as a brick, construction block, panel or floor, the structural element comprising: two spaced-apart parts made of conglomerate material; and a whole single insert block made of insulating or filling material constrained between the two parts made of conglomerate material for thermally insulating the two parts from each other, the insert block occupying substantially the entire space between the two parts made of conglomerate material, said insert block defining peripherally an upper connection face, an opposed flat lower face, and lateral connection faces extending generally perpendicularly to the flat lower face, a first surface of the insert block of said upper connection face being flat and level with a height of a support plane and being configured for directly cooperating only with a lower face of a second structural element, said two parts made of conglomerate material including two spaced-apart seatings each extending longitudinally and lowered with respect to the support plane, each seating receiving a layer of binder material, said seatings being configured with a depth with respect to the support plane, said depth being generally equal to a predefined thickness of the binder material to be laid in a predetermined amount, said thickness of the layer of binder material being laterally confined in said seatings and intended to define a flat surface flush and continuous with said first surface and said support plane, and a plurality of protruding parts formed on the spaced-apart seatings of the two parts made of conglomerate material, at least a portion of each protruding part being formed at an outermost periphery of one of the two parts made of conglomerate material such that the plurality of protruding parts are reference points when stacking more than one of the structural elements, each protruding part having a height level with the support plane, a height of each protruding element being equal to the depth of the seatings, the protruding elements being disposed in pairs.