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Precast Slabs provided to Dublin Nursing Home

This two storey purpose built Nursing Home in Dublin will go some way towards addressing the chronic shortage of nursing home places in the capital at present.  Construction work is continuing on site and with Flood Precast delivering the last precast slabs in July 2016.

Flood Precast designed, manufactured and supplied 1800m2 of Flood Super Wideslab® and 3 Precast Stair cores.

Prestressed concrete is a useful process that can resolve concrete’s natural imperfection in tension. It extends long over the beams, floors or bridges. Prestressing tendons (usually contains high tensile steel cable or rods) are applied to deliver a clamping load that creates a compressive stress to adjust the tensile stress that occurs for the concrete compression member because of a bending load. Conventional reinforced concrete is dependent on the use of steel reinforcement bars, rebars, within poured concrete.

The principal of prestressed precast slabs is that as soon as the preliminary compression is applied, the subsequent material contains the properties of high-strength concrete when dependent on any resultant compression forces, as well as ductile high-strength steel when dependent on tension forces. This can lead to enhance structural capacity and/or serviceability with regard to commonly reinforced concrete in many cases.

Contractor – Cappagh Homes/Derreen Construction

ArchitectHussey Architects

Engineer Waterman Moylan

Products – 1800m2 of 100mm Flood Super Wideslab® 3no Precast Stairs

 

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