PLATE FLOORING

Plate Flooring slab is composed of a thin reinforced concrete plate incorporating a steel lattice girder and all reinforcement required by design. Plate flooring is used in residential, general or industrial buildings. The advantages of Plate Flooring are as follows.

• Up to 2.9m wide elements resulting in fewer joints.
• No negative camber.
• Integrated openings and notches for service risers and other service penetrations.
• Excellent sound insulation and fire resistance of the solid concrete slab.
• The flexibility to produce elements with complex geometry that the automatic manufacturing process allows.
• The 65mm pre-cast elements facilitate the laying of plumbing and electrical services on top of the elements, prior to pouring the in-situ concrete.
• Elimination of site shuttering.

 

 

 

Further Information:

• Plate thickness is 65mm.
• It is supported in its temporary state, prior to the pouring of the in-situ concrete, by lattice girders and temporary propping.
• The Propping is removed once the concrete has reached the required strength.
• The diagonals of the girders serve to withstand the shear stress between the precast and in-situ concrete layers.