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 […]
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Wide Slab Flooring at New Street Station Car Park
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 […]
Omnia Flooring Update at The Heineken Brewery
The Heineken group is spending £50m on its Manchester brewery, where it produces Foster’s and Kronenbourg 1664, in a bid to increase production by 2 million hectolitres, equivalent to 350 million pints, from 3.5m hectolitres at present to do this they needed several new vats and processing centre. This was a live site, producing food stuffs, […]
Trying to Cast a Beam into Hollowcore Floor Planks?
Sometimes the Engineer has a specific problem he needs to overcome. A client came to us recently with a floor that was to be heavily loaded and the Engineer had a requirement for up-stand beams. So he wants a pre-stressed precast floor with a beam cast in. If Hollowcore floor planks was the only precast […]
Wide Slab Flooring Solves Problem at Northwick Park Hospital
Flood Precast helped to ensure that a vital hospital construction project was able to meet its targets with their trademark wide slab flooring product Flood Super Wideslab®. A badly-needed new Accident and Emergency department The A&E department at Northwick Park Hospital in Brent, London was outdated and much too small – it was described as […]
BIM at Bede Campus, City of Sunderland College
Building Information Modelling is playing a key role in Flood Precast’s work on new buildings at the City of Sunderland College’s Bede Campus. The project involves the replacement of existing buildings by a new visual and performing arts complex, and a sports centre. Seamless Planning BIM enables Flood Precast to work seamlessly with other members […]
Thermal Mass and Wideslab at New Nene Park Academy Building
Nene Park Academy, in Oundle Road, Orton Longueville, opened its new building in September 2013. The 15m, 1,100 pupil academy extends over 6,564 square metres and includes fully equipped IT and digital media studios. The new build used 5600 sq m of Flood Super Wideslab® and 4 bespoke precast stair cores, which were designed specifically […]
Wide Slab Flooring Stops Bullets for the Northumbria Police Authority
Because of its high density, and its sound-absorbing qualities, Flood Super Wideslab®, our trademark wideslab flooring, was the ideal material to contain the risks posed by live ammunition at Northumbria Police Authority’s new Firearms Training Facility at Follingsby Park, Gateshead. The recently-completed new building contains firing ranges and driver training accommodation, together with office space […]
Thermal Mass for Energy Efficiency in Shelfield Community Academy Building
Flood precast products have proved to be an ideal match for high-tech educational facilities in a newly-finished project near Birmingham. The Shelfield Community Academy building in Pelsall, West Midlands, which was officially opened by His Royal Highness The Earl of Wessex in October. The building used approximately 8000 square metres of Flood Super Wideslab® and […]
Flood Super Wideslab – The ideal solution at St. Alban’s Station
Flood Super Wideslab®, a unique precast concrete flooring product allowed for the efficient use of time, space and money at St. Alban’s Station Car Park, producing a high quality exposed soffit finish. The strength and versatility of Flood Super Wideslab® flooring proved to be an ideal solution to the requirements of the multi-storey car park at St. […]