Raft slab / Green Building & Sustainable Home Renovation Information & Advice

...slab on grade on a footing. Find more pages about sustainable and resilient green building techniques in the Ecohome Green Building Guide pages, and here :  Raft slab kits - a more simple way to build a slab on grade  Air heated radiant floor heating instead of liquid Properly insulating basements and slab on gra...

...slab-on-grade home and superior wall drying abilities means that this house will have a longer than average operational life. This will help balance the added 'carbon' investment in terms of the embodied energy of building materials. For our building envelope we will use mineral wool insulation, which has a high embodi...

...slab floor to help transfer the warmth of the sun from the southern exposure to the north end of the house, also making sure rooms exposed to the sun do not overheat. The following table charts the temperatures over the course of a 4 day period with variable temperatures and sun exposure.   Date Time Ext. Temp °C In...

...slab-on-grade foundation avoids this all together. Floating slab / monolithic slab foundation: The term floating slab refers to a two-stage slab construction, where footings are individually poured, and the centre floor of the slab is poured after footings have cured. The concrete forms for monolithic concrete slab fou...

...slab designs. This page is about how to build a thickened edge concrete slab on grade FPSF footing on soil with a high water table to prevent frost heave, by first installing drainage below the slab.  Related slab on grade foundation pages: Slab-on-grade technical guide Building a thickened edge slab on grade with nor...

...slab-on-grade construction Slab-on-grade construction is best if: Slab on grade polished concrete floor © Bala Structures A slab floor is a fantastic way to start a passive solar home, as your entire floor surface consists of several inches of thermal mass to absorb heat. A slab is a great place to bury electrical wo...