Suspended Concrete Floor Slab

Using a composite steel and concrete design the floor slab can be thinner than conventional residential suspended slab systems.

Suspended concrete floor slab. Suspended slabs are made of concrete and steel mesh the same as a ground slab. Concrete slab floors come in many forms and can be used to provide great thermal comfort and lifestyle advantages. In floor slab begin concrete placing along the perimeter at one end of the work with each batch placed against previously dispatched concrete. Slabs can be on ground suspended or a mix of both.

A smartslab suspended concrete floor is non combustible therefore making it ideal for those building in bush fire prone areas. Pour compact and finishing concrete floor slab mixing transporting and handling of concrete shall be properly coordinated with placing and finishing works. Smartslab provides a total service for the design and construction of suspended slabs. Slabs are constructed to provide flat surfaces usually horizontal in building floors roofs bridges and other types of structures.

Some slabs have hollow channels running through them these hollow core slabs are used to help reduce weight and also to allow cabling and piping to be run through the slab. A suspended concrete floor is a floor slab where its perimeter is or at least two of its opposite edges are supported on walls beams or columns that carry its self weight and imposed loading. A slab is ground bearing if it rests directly on the foundation otherwise the slab is suspended. Conventional concrete has high embodied energy.

Suspended concrete slab is referred to a cement slab that is not in contact with the ground. The floor spans between supports and will normally deflect under load to a dimension that is limited by the design used. These slabs are generally classified as ground bearing or suspended. The slab may be supported by walls or by reinforced concrete beams usually cast monolithically with the slab or by structural steel beams or by columns or by the ground.

This type of concrete slab construction requires different concrete slab design from the one we normally se. They are normally pre fabricated offsite and transported by truck. Speedfloor the unique suspended concrete flooring system is an innovation to the building industry. Slabs are classified into 16 types.

This results in a cost savings in concrete of 25 50. In many domestic and industrial buildings a thick concrete slab supported on foundations or directly on the subsoil is used to construct the ground floor.