Technical articles
Consequences of A Poorly Designed Industrial Floor:
The design of industrial floors in warehouse, manufacturing, and distribution center's is a critical aspect that often goes unnoticed amidst the construction process. However, neglecting proper floor design can lead to...
Consideration for a new Industrial Floor
An industrial concrete floor’s principal duty is to serve as the work surface for the intended use of the building. Ideally, this working surface needs to be durable, flat and provide an uninterrupted platform. Unfortunately...
Protecting your Concrete Asset: Is your industrial or commercial floor important to you?
Concrete slabs and pavements are all around us, and if we are building owners we will own a lot of the hard grey stuff yet how much...
Disrupted Face Technology in Steel Armored Joints.
Armoured Joints are an important consideration when designing and constructing industrial floor slabs. Not using a steel armoured edge to protect the aris of the joints edge will result in...
Thinking Smarter and Greener with GFRP Reinforcement and Dowels
Thinking Smarter and Greener with GFRP Reinforcement and dowels With tensile strength 2x that of steel and non corrosive, Casta Smart-Bar glass fiber-reinforced polymer (GFRP) rebar is designed to replace...
GFRP Dowels and Corrosion Mitigation
How to mitigate the risk of corrosion in concrete though using Glass Fibre Reinforced Polymers (GFRP) Corrosion of steel dowels in concrete slabs have been an issue for as long...
Understanding the importance of Load Transfer
What is load transfer? A concrete floor is often constructed in many panels and the point where one panel meets another is called a joint. Anything on top of the...
Why care about Joints in a floor?
WHY CARE ABOUT JOINTS? We often get asked why we put so much emphasis on joint layout and joint type in our slab designs. There’s a specific reason for...
