Suspended Ground Floor Slab

The floor can be formed in various ways using timber joists precast concrete panels block and beam system or cast in situ with reinforced concrete.

Suspended ground floor slab. They are commonly used to create floors for the upper storeys of houses but can also be sat on top of pre constructed walls to form a ground floor. These slabs are generally classified as ground bearing or suspended. Where a void is left below the slab a precast floor system can prove economic and durable if suitable cover. 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.

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. A slab is ground bearing if it rests directly on the foundation otherwise the slab is suspended. Suspended ground floor slabs. A suspended floor is a ground floor with a void underneath the structure.

Suspended concrete slab is referred to a cement slab that is not in contact with the ground. Wall ground floor junction scottish building standards. Suspended slabs differ from non suspended slabs because they are suspended above the ground via beams. The ground floor is made up of suspended concrete slab or beam and block floor supported by the external and internal load bearing walls which transfer the loads to the foundations below.

4 10 ground bearing floor slab. These slabs can be suspended on the original subfloor walls and footings or if the old floor is close to the ground they can be an infill slab on fill. This type of concrete slab construction requires different concrete slab design from the one we normally see that is cast on the ground. Both pre cast concrete planks or slabs can be used as well as cast in situ reinforced slabs along with beam and block systems.

For situations where the ground is unsuitable for the support of the ground floor slab or where the slope of the site makes it economic to leave a void below the ground slab suspended floors are adopted. Supports underneath the floor are permanent and. What is a suspended slab. The most common application of suspended slab in residential construction is used at garage floor where below the garage floor is a storage.

However the floor structure is supported by external and internal walls. 4 09 suspended ground floor slab. Suspended slabs are above ground level slabs which are not directly in contact with the earth. Non suspended slabs sit directly on the ground.