Traditional Concrete Floor Construction Detail

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Traditional concrete floor construction detail. Their article includes guidance on the conservation of traditional breathable floors and explores the options open to specifiers of new solid floors in traditional buildings whether in limecrete modern slab traditional earth or of a hybrid design. The effectiveness of precast concrete shear walls is largely dependent on the panel to panel connections. Many of these requirements are defined by the class of floor the owner wants note that decorative concrete is typically a class 1 floor. Intermediate concrete floor construction details drawing labels details and other text information extracted from the cad file.

In typical office environments the concrete floor slab itself is comprised of 4 to 6 thick concrete reinforced with one layer of welded wire fabric at mid depth unless below the water table when hydrostatic heads may exert upward pressure requiring stronger construction. Grosvenor court upper high street killarney co. Paul watts and gillian tesh of mike wye associates look at traditional and modern breathable solid floors. It is the responsibility of the designer to ensure the reinforcing is design specifically for your project.

In the event structural engineering for a concrete floor or any concrete or other masonry footings foundations walls or retaining walls is required or requested by you or a building official this is outside our engineer s scope. Additional construction details drawings as well as the small selection of foundation wall floor and roof construction detail drawings shown here many of the building notes have a related construction detail drawing with specific dimensions eg rafter sizes spans insulations types for purchase with the building specifications. In some cases precast panels are used as formwork for cast in place concrete. Rather the reader is referred to the aisi standard for cold formed steel framing prescriptive method for one and two family dwellings aisi 2001 for guidance.

Floors are classified based on the intended use of the floor see the table below that was adapted from aci 302 1 r 04 concrete floor and slab construction. Precast concrete shear wall panels provide a lateral load resisting system when combined with the diaphragm action of the floor construction. More details will be uploaded periodically as we finish upgrading to our new website please note that any reinforcing shown is for illustrative purposes only. Concrete slab floor construction was often used for internal garages or lower levels of split level houses with suspended floors used for other parts of the house.

Although cold formed steel framing for floor systems also is permitted by the irc it is not covered here. 69 chapter 4 floor construction woodframe floor systems and concrete slab on grade floors are discussed in this chapter. Under slab vapor retarders or waterproofing.