The use of beam-and-block systems for the construction of residential ground-floor properties is now a common method of construction across the UK. It also offers many technical benefits, including the ability to increase spans, floors that are unaffected by damp or rot, increased fire resistance and good thermal insulation properties. Simon Evans of Fibre Concrete Solutions reports.
To Saw or Not to Saw? Joint Load Transfer Is the Question – and Here Is the Answer
Since the publication of Concrete Society Technical Report 34 Fourth Edition in 2013 (TR34), and despite the excellent guidance it
