Engineered suspended garage slab

[Curtis Johnson]

Charlie:

Here's a couple of pictures of a project I designed a year and a half ago. It featured an engineered concrete floor for the garage and also for the ceiling of a storage area accessed from the workshop below the garage. Both the garage floor and the storage area photos received a concrete slab overpour after I took these photos. A structural engineer provided all the design details for the floors and I never did get to see what they looked like. The concrete floor panels where manufactured in Spokane, WA and shipped to the project site near Pullman, WA. As I was told, the installation went quickly.



Another insulated concrete floor form product I like the looks of is called Fortruss and is made by Beaver Plastics in Canada:



I like this product because of the larger surface areas for ceiling drywall attachment as well as the larger areas to run mechanicals in. They have a great product manual in PDF format that can be viewed on-line or downloaded if desired.

I have also designed several new home projects that used the InsulDeck insulated floor forms for homes using in-slab radiant floor heating. As mentioned, all these types of floor systems require engineering.

[ebdesign]

I've done a few of these w/prestressed concrete. Here's a plan w/ some of them in standard widths, & the solids I used to create them so you can make whatever you want w/the solid subraction tools.
Jim

[Tundara Homes]

Jim, you are very generous, thanks. I will take a look.