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The SBC Panel System

Stacked stone walls that go up with a nail gun.

Laid stone needs a mason, mortar, scaffolding and a footing to carry the weight. The SBC wall panel system is cast concrete stone in lightweight panels — cut with a wood blade, fixed with nails or screws, straight onto the wall. First place, Attendee’s Choice, Most Innovative Products at the World of Concrete.

Two interior photographs side by side: a shower surround clad in pale gold stacked stone panels, and a fireplace and media wall clad in warm multi-coloured stacked stone.
Interior installations — shower surround and fireplaceTwo rooms, same system. Nobody who walks past either of these works out that the stone was cast rather than quarried, and neither wall needed a structural footing to carry it.
Why it wins

Cut it like wood. Hang it like siding.

This is the whole argument, and it is the reason the system took first place at the World of Concrete. Real stone is a trade. This is a carpentry job — which means a contractor who has never laid a stone in his life can quote the work, and finish it in a fraction of the time.

A cordless circular saw with a wood blade cutting through a stacked stone concrete wall panel.
Cut with a skill sawAn ordinary circular saw and an ordinary wood blade. No wet saw, no diamond blade, no slurry to clean up afterwards.
A pneumatic nail gun fixing a stacked stone concrete wall panel to a framed wall.
Install with a nail gunStraight through the panel into the framing. A finish nailer and a compressor is the whole kit.
A cordless drill driving a screw through a pale stacked stone concrete wall panel into framing.
Or install with screwsWhere nailing is not appropriate, screws do the same job. Either way it is fixed in seconds, not set in mortar and left overnight.
The panel system SBC Concrete Wall Panels International
Patterns and colourways

The panels themselves.

Panels are cast from real stone, so the face carries the irregularity of the original rather than a repeating mould pattern. Colour is worked into the cast rather than sprayed on top, which is why the same pattern can read as sandstone, slate or desert rock.

A composite image: on the left a fireplace clad in warm stacked stone, on the right SBC Fractured Quartz concrete wall panels and an exterior wainscot in the same stone.
Fractured Quartz, in the shop and on the wallThe pattern SBC is best known for. On the left, a completed fireplace and media wall; on the right, the panels themselves and the same stone run as an exterior wainscot above a wood-plank concrete deck.
A rectangular concrete wall panel cast as pale white stacked stone, photographed flat against a dark grey background.
Cast white, ready to colourA panel straight out of the mould before any colour goes on. This is what the installer actually receives — and where you can see how much depth is cast into the face.
A stack of concrete wall panels coloured in rust, orange and dark brown stacked stone.
Rust and umberDeep orange and brown worked through the same pattern, with dark bands where the stone would have weathered.
A concrete wall panel coloured in dusky pink and blue-green, leaning against artificial turf.
Desert rose and verdigrisA panel proving the point about colour: identical casting, an entirely different rock. The blue-green is worked into the recesses so it reads as age rather than paint.
Installed

Houses, commercial buildings and one very large curve.

The panels weigh a fraction of laid stone, so they go where stone cannot: over existing stucco, onto framed walls, around curves, and up buildings that were never designed to carry a stone facade.

The side of a commercial building clad in concrete stacked stone panels in two different colourways, separated by red-painted columns, beside a car park.
Commercial frontage, two colourwaysA retail frontage clad in two different colourways either side of a painted column. The building did not need reinforcing to take it.
A single-storey stucco house with a pale gold stacked stone wainscot along the base and sandstone-coloured concrete surrounds around the windows.
Wainscot and window surroundsA stucco house lifted with a panel wainscot along the base and cast stone surrounds around every window. Two materials, one weekend of work.
A modern outdoor water feature with a sheet of water falling from a lit stacked stone panel wall onto a timber deck.
Behind a sheet of waterA panel wall used as the face of a water feature, lit from below. Sealed for constant wetting — which is a question worth asking of any stone.
A tall gated backyard entry with an arched top, clad entirely in pale grey and tan stacked stone panels.
The gate through to the backyardA gated side entry, panelled the full height and cut to follow the arch across the top. Shaping a curve like that is a saw job here — in laid stone it would be a day of cutting and a mason on site.
The front of a single-storey house with a tall chimney breast and two entry columns clad in gold and amber stacked stone panels, above a green lawn.
Entry columns and chimney breastPanels taken right up a chimney breast and around both entry columns, with a mitred corner at every return. Nothing here is load-bearing stone — it is all cladding over what was already built.
A long house wainscot below a run of windows, clad in stacked stone panels mixing grey, rust and ochre, above a raised planting bed with flowers.
Multi-colour wainscot along a window runGrey, rust, ochre and slate mixed through one wall, with a cast sill capping it. Mixing colourways within a run is what stops a long wall reading as a repeating panel.
The corner of a house below a bay window, clad in tan, grey and dark brown stacked stone panels with a cast concrete sill, beside a stamped concrete patio.
Around a corner, under a bayA return corner under a bay window with the cast sill mitred around it, sitting on a stamped concrete patio. The corner is the detail that gives cheap cladding away, so it is the one to look at.
A long exterior wainscot clad in gold and tan stacked stone panels with a cast coping, on a new build with bare soil at its base.
Gold sandstone, new buildA full wainscot run on a new build before the ground was made good. Cast coping along the top, straight onto the wall.
A house wainscot clad in deep red and maroon stacked stone panels with a matching cast cap, against grey siding above white gravel.
Deep red, with a matching capThe same panel, an entirely different rock — deep oxblood with a cast cap coloured to match. Against grey siding and white gravel it does all the work on the elevation.
A floor-to-ceiling fireplace and media wall clad in warm brown, gold and slate stacked stone panels, with a timber mantel and a lit gas fire.
Floor to ceiling, around a fireplaceTaken the full height of the room and returned around the corner, with the fireplace and mantel set into it. Stone this high on a timber-framed wall is only practical because the panels weigh what they weigh.
A long low garden boundary wall clad in pale multi-coloured stacked stone panels with a cast concrete cap, above a bed of blue and purple flowers.
A long low boundary wallRun the length of a frontage with a cast cap along the top, over a planted bed. Low walls are where the weight saving matters least and the speed matters most.
An exterior wall below a window clad in warm brown and gold stacked stone panels with a cast sill, above a concrete deck finished to look like timber planks.
Wainscot over a wood-plank deckWarm sandstone panels below the window, with a cast sill running along the top, above a concrete deck finished as timber planks. Both surfaces are cement.

The panel system is taught in full — making the panels, colouring them and hanging them — in the hands-on class, and it is included in the 67-video home study course.

Learn the panel system
Molds Forms & form liners

Form liners for wall siding, accent walls and water walls. Panel design sets are sold direct — call 855-744-2900.

Colour Colorants & pigments

What turns one casting into sandstone, slate or desert rock.

Materials Raw materials

Blends, pozzolan and fibres — the reason a panel this size can be lifted with one hand.

Cladding a house, a frontage or a feature wall? Call 855-744-2900 or 623-267-4336.

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