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Pattern Number: 215Pattern Title: Ground Floor Slab
Category: Construction
Sub-Category: Mark the column locations and erect the main frame
Up links: 168 Connection to the Earth 206 Efficient Structure 212 Columns at the Corners 214 Root Foundations
Horizontal links:
Down links: 233 Floor Surface 168 Connection to the Earth 248 Soft Tile and Brick 219 Floor-ceiling Vaults
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Summaries of content, keywords and links generated by algorithms. Thank you smmry.com:
Summary 1: The slab is the easiest, cheapest, and most natural way to lay a ground floor.
Summary 2: Build a ground floor slab, raised slightly - six or nine inches above the ground - by first building a low perimeter wall around the building, tied into the column foundations, and then filling it with rubble, gravel, and concrete.
Summary 3: A raised ground floor slab built inside a brick perimeter wall.
Summary 4: When the ground is relatively level, a concrete slab which sits directly on the ground is the most natural and cheapest way of building a ground floor.
Summary 5: Build the low wall which forms the edge of the ground floor slab out of brick, and tie it directly into all the terraces and paths around the building - CONNECTION TO THE EARTH, SOFT TILE AND BRICK.
Summary 6: If you are building on a steep sloped site, build part of the ground floor as a vaulted floor instead of excavating to form a slab - FLOOR-CEILING VAULTS.....
Keywords: floor ground slab build wall
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