Concrete Advice 02 Suspended concrete floors: maximum size of pour allowable and location of construction joints

Publication Year

2020

Document Status

Current

Abstract

Suspended floors have different movement restraints compared with ground floors, notably in the joints with columns, walls, beams and other vertical connections. This document offers guidance on type, location and formation of joints, along with the restraint and provision of reinforcement and sequence and area of pours.

Document History

First issued July 2003. Revised January 2014, October 2016 and January 2020.

Author

Barnbrook, G. and Simpson, D.

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