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Advantages of Flood Super Wideslab® used in Waltham Forest Leisure Centre

Flood Precast provided the first floor slabs to the re-development of the leisure centre.

This project got underway to have Waltham Forest Leisure Centre up and running by Autumn 2016. The new facility, called Waltham Forest Leisure Centre, is being built next to the athletics track off Chingford Road, where the former Pool and Track building once stood.

The scheme will make the centre one of the largest health and sports centres in London, and makes this the last of the borough’s leisure centres to receive an overhaul.

Advantages of Flood Super Wideslab® Flooring

  • On this project there was almost 50% savings on craneage costs. Due to the Super Wideslab® being 2.4m in width, half the amounts of lifts are required from a tower crane compared to the 1.2m-hollowcore units.
  • Saving on construction programme. Due to the crane having fewer lifts, it was free to carry out other site works.
  • Once in place, the units provided an immediate working platform for other trades. Thus saving costs as it reduced the timeline of the project.
  • Super Wideslab® can be designed to eliminate expensive formwork, especially around opes and cantilever balconies.
  • Super Wideslab® can be designed to work compositely with steel or insitu concrete beams, reducing the beam depth.
  • Super Wideslab® with projecting steel can be used with insitu beams to give a flat soffit eliminating down stand beams.
  • Due to the method of production any opes or splays can be easily formed
  • The Super Wideslab® system provides better sound insulation properties than of Hollowcore.
  • The soffit of the Super Wideslab® is smooth as it is formed on a steel bed. Therefore, it can be left exposed thus reducing the overall cost.
  • Reduction in the overall height of the structure.

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