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September 11, 2011
Piled floors in distribution centres are attracting unfavourable attention among developers and building owners and there is some nervousness about the commonly used steel-fibre-reinforced concrete (SFRC) designs.
June 1, 2011
Face Consultants (Face) are now able to offer floor surveys to the recently introduced VDMA guidelines with the introduction of the Face ‘Fx’-meter as an attachment to its current Face Digital DIN 15185 Profileograph.
March 3, 2010
Anecdotal evidence suggests that the quality of warehouse and industrial floors has improved in recent years since the publication of the Third Edition of Technical Report 34(1).
July 24, 2008
The latest edition of the Concrete Society’s Technical Report 34, the principle guide to the design and construction of concrete industrial ground floors in the UK, includes new floor flatness standards designed to improve the efficiency and safety of fork lift truck operations in very narrow aisle (VNA) warehouses.
August 8, 2007
When the Concrete Society published the third edition of Technical Report 34, many people involved in warehouse design, construction and operation welcomed the clarity and practicality of the new floor flatness standards it included.