Exposed Flooring At Slab Edge

You add slab edges by selecting horizontal edges of floors.

Exposed flooring at slab edge.

All slab floors required. Architecture tabbuild panelfloor drop down floor. A raised floor is also used to raise the building above a floodplain. Slab edge highlight horizontal edges of floors and click to place a slab edge.

Slab edge structure tabstructure panelfloor drop down floor. Heated slab on grade floors include all floors that are heated directly in order to provide heating to the space. One of two classes for floors in contact with ground. You can place slab edges in 2d views such as plan or section views or in 3d views.

Slab edge insulation is one of. For decades wasted heat was considered unavoidable in north american buildings with exposed slab edges. 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. 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.

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. 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. Monitoring of the r 10 prototype mockup indicated slab edge loss reductions of close to 90 in the sacramento climate.

1 heated slab on grade floors and 2 unheated slab on grade floors. 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. Have look next time you see any house with a concrete floor.