Resumen de Innovative composite floors for sustainable schools

Daniel Chapman, Allan McRobie, Sam Winder, Panayiotis Papastavrou, Simon Smith

• This article describes a project to investigate the dynamic behaviour of a prefabricated timber-concrete composite floor slab developed for the Department for Education’s GenZero sustainable schools programme.

  The GenZero initiative involves a new building system made of a kit of parts that could be manufactured off site and then assembled on site to create different configurations of secondary school.

  The slab is constructed of a precast concrete deck on glulam ribs, with two interlayers.

  The project investigated the effect of both the interlayers and different shear connectors on the performance of the slab.