Guide to Industrial Floors and Pavements

This guide covers the design, construction and specification of concrete industrial floors and pavements. It has been prepared to assist engineers, specifiers and building contractors by providing an outline of the process of design and construction and the major factors in meeting design performance. The principles and details provided are applicable to pavements found in a wide range of commercial and industrial buildings including warehouses and stores; manufacturing plants; engineering workshops and garages; offices and shopping complexes. This third edition takes into account relevant changes to Australian Standards since the second edition was published in 1999.

This guide references spreadsheets that are available to assist designers in the calculation of the required  base thickness and allow sensitivity checks of variables more rapidly. The thickness design charts and the description of their use were prepared by Coffey Geotechnics. These spreadsheets are available here.