Precast hollow floor units
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Precast hollow floor units

These large precast reinforced concrete, hollow floor units are usually available in following dimension

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Precast concrete floors are designed primarily to eliminate shuttering and wet concrete pouring processes that make the construction of an in situ cast reinforced floor a slow procedure.

The advantage of the completely precast floor is that it can be constructed rapidly and readily it provides a platform from which further work on the building can immediately go on.

A disadvantage is that it is less easy to provide a rigid connection between the precast unit and the supporting beams or wall. The precast beam or the precast rib and filler block construction must act together as a single unit to horizontal actions (wind, earthquake).

Hollow core slabs stacked at the precasting plant.

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