Slab edge highlight horizontal edges of floors and click to place a slab edge.
Exposed flooring at slab edge.
Architecture tabbuild panelfloor drop down floor.
Floor r value basementc wall r value slabd r value depth crawl spacec wall r value e402 1 1 1 1 20 0 75 0 30 30 13 3 4 13 0 0 0 2 0 65j 0 75 0 30 30 13 4 6 13 0 0 0 3 0 50j 0 65.
Have look next time you see any house with a concrete floor.
For decades wasted heat was considered unavoidable in north american buildings with exposed slab edges.
1 heated slab on grade floors and 2 unheated slab on grade floors.
All slab floors required.
A raised floor foundation has many pros and fits most project applications.
If the building site has problematic soil such as expansive clays a raised floor foundation would perform much better than slab as slab would most likely crack on this type of soil.
You can place slab edges in 2d views such as plan or section views or in 3d views.
Conventional exposed slab edges create a thermal bridge in the otherwise continuous insulation of the building envelope rapidly conducting heat away from the interior floor slab through the envelope and into the exterior environment.
Monitoring of the r 10 prototype mockup indicated slab edge loss reductions of close to 90 in the sacramento climate.
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A raised floor is also used to raise the building above a floodplain.
If you can see a strip of plain concrete between the base of the cladding and the ground then you re looking at one end of a very effective thermal bridge that will leak heat.
Protection of exposed foundation insulation.
Monitored heat loss reduction for the uninsulated r 0 prototype in radiant floor heating mode suggests 50 higher edge heat flux relative to forced air mode operation.
Unfortunately it s relatively common in new zealand to leave the perimeter edge of the slab exposed.
Heated slab on grade floors include all floors that are heated directly in order to provide heating to the space.
Slab edge structure tabstructure panelfloor drop down floor.