Testing results of the new floor construction design and installation

Abstract

Various constructive solutions and installation technologies are being used for the design and erection of public and industrial buildings with large floor areas. Our investigation shows the insufficient floor design in the construction projects. In case of lack of the qualitative documentation a trust is taken often in provider’s promotional information without any essential quality parameters available on that issue on the construction site. Floor splitting and cracking into large strips, lamination of the decorative layer from the concrete base are typical failures for the floor structure. If the deformation joints installed in different floor layers structure do not coincide themselves, they do appear on the floor decorative layer. The investigations involve a systematization of requirements for the floor structural solutions, analyzis of the design and outcomes of the physical fact-finding for buildings both the built up and being under construction.