A Class B soffit finish suitable for direct decoration Flood Super Wideslab ® is wet cast on steel moulds, so the soffit of the planks can be painted directly, benefiting aesthetics, thermal mass and cost savings by eliminating suspended ceilings in buildings. The wide slab units are 2.4m wide so half the joints on view compared […]
Andrew Kinsella Managing Director of Transport Partner, Gwynedd Shipping Ltd delivers the first of a number of high spec liveried Euroliners to our Transport Co-ordinator Kurt Kaupert. The units are designed to the highest Health and Safety standards and are capable of widening at the top to cater for our 2.4m wide Flood Super Wideslab® wide […]
Flood Precast recently solved a concrete flooring issue by installing their trademark wide slab flooring product, Super Wideslab® at Thomas Gainsborough Academy, Sudbury UK, part of the East of England building schools for the future framework. Concrete Flooring Issues A live school site in densely populated neighbourhood. this was a 5 week site programme. Fitting precast […]
Flood Precast worked closely with Vinci Construction to come up with a floor solution on the new Multi story car park at New Street station next to the Bull ring in Birmingham. The clients Network Rail and John Lewis required a very high quality exposed soffit finish to type B. Although Flood Precast do offer […]
Flood Precast products are making a major contribution to Huddersfield’s new flagship Leisure Centre, on the Spring Grove car park at Springwood, which is due to open in 2015. The Leisure Centre is being constructed at a cost of £36 million by a team headed by BAM. Flood Precast demonstrated their well-known ability to adapt their […]
What is exposed soffit? Soffit refers to the underside of a building component, usually a flooring section. An exposed soffit is one to which no additional finishing layer, such as a suspended ceiling, or tiling, board, or laminate, has been applied. Flood Precast flooring slab has a high-quality Class B finish to which paint can […]
Concrete is sometimes thought of as a modern building material, but in fact, its use goes back thousands of years. Possibly the oldest building in the world still in regular use is the Pantheon in Rome, which is made of concrete sections that are believed to have been poured in situ into wooden forms. The […]
What is thermal mass? All buildings, of whatever type, have thermal mass. Structural elements such as walls and floors will tend to absorb heat both from the interior of a building and from its surroundings, and then release it again as the temperature lowers. Thermal mass is the name given to this capacity of the […]
Disproportionate collapse is the term applied to a catastrophic type of building failure in which the loss of one component leads to the progressive failure of many others, often with devastating consequences. The Domino Effect of Disproportionate Collapse The emotive terms ‘pancake collapse’, ‘house of cards’ and ‘domino effect’ are often used when describing the […]
A quick turnaround was essential when Flood were asked to supply products for Cosworth’s new factory in Northampton. Cosworth is the precision engineering firm which makes components for many of the world’s performance and racing cars. Precast stairs and Hollowcore Floor Working to meet a short lead-in time, Flood supplied 200mm Hollowcore flooring and the […]
