INTRODUCTION:
In this system of construction, the flat roof and floor slabs are cast one on the other at
ground level around columns or in situ cast service, stair and lift cores.
Jacks operating from the columns or cores pull the roof and floor slabs up into position.,
hence the name lift-slab construction.
The pre-manufactured structures are designed to be readily integrated with both
horizontal and vertically adjacent building components, including lift-slab components,
so that multiple building stories may be readily and securely stacked, one on top of the
other.
Lift Slab Construction advantageously provides for easier, more efficient, faster,
cheaper, safer, higher quality and more consistent, environmentally advantaged,
energy-efficient, easier to maintain, intelligently designed, and customizable multi-
story building construction.
Advantages:
The only formwork required is to the edges of the slabs, and no centering whatever is
required to the soffit of roof or floors.
The advantage of the system is that the only formwork required is to the edges of the
slabs, and no centering whatever is required to the soffit of roof or floors.
The advantages of this system are employed most fully in simple, isolated point block
buildings of up to five storeys where the floor plans are the same throughout the height
of the building and a flush slab floor may be an advantage.
The system can be employed for beam and slab, and waffle grid floors, but the forms
necessary between the floors to give the required soffit take most of the advantage of
simplicity of casting on the ground.
CONSTRUCTION PROCESS:
Steel or concrete columns are first fixed in position and rigidly connected to the
foundation, and the ground floor slab is then cast.
When it has gained strength, it is sprayed with two or three coats of a separating medium
consisting of wax dissolved in a volatile spirit.
The first floor slab is cast inside edge formwork on top of the ground floor slab, and
when it is mature it is in turn coated or covered with the separating medium and the
next floor slab is cast on top of it.
The casting of successive slabs continues until all the floors and roof have been cast
one on the other on the ground.
Lifting collars are cast into each slab around each column. The slabs are lifted by jacks,
operating on the top of each column, which lift a pair of steel rods attached to each
lifting collar in the slab being raised.
The bases of the columns are rigidly fixed to the foundations so that when lifting
commences the columns act as vertical cantilevers. The load that the columns can safely
support at the beginning of the lift limits the length of the lower column height and the
number of slabs that can be raised at one time.
The lifting collars are fixed to steel columns by welding shear blocks to plates welded
between column flanges and to the collar after the slab has been raised into position.
Concrete extension columns are connected either with studs protruding from column
ends and bolted to a connection plate, or by means of a joggle connection.
FIG.1 SEQUENCE OF LIFTING SLAB
CONSTRUCTION DETAILS:
FIG.2 LIFTING COLLAR DETAIL
FIG.3 CONNECTION OF SLAB TO STEEL FIG4. CONNECTION OF SLAB TO CONCRETE
COLUMN COLUMN
FIG.5 COLUMN FRAMEWORK
FIG.6 SLABS STACKED AT GROUND FLOOR
FIG.7 SLABS LIFTED BY HYDRAULICS
