Concrete Slabs-on-Ground

Free Publications   

As part of the seminar, you will receive FREE the following publication(s) a $289.00 value:

Seminar Topics   

• Expectations relative to slab-on-ground performance, serviceability, reference documents; owner, local market, site specific issues, sustainability and implied criteria


• Engineering considerations, loads, soil support system, concrete mix


• Moisture emission and related issues, curling considerations, surface tolerances


• Preparation, placing and finishing slabs-on-ground


• Slab-on-ground thickness design. Design examples for distributed, rack post, and lift truck loading; reasonable assumptions when you don’t know


• Designing for shrinkage, minimizing restraint to movement: joint spacing, reinforcing options to limit out-of-joint crack width development


• Two course slab systems


• Floor joints and load transfer


• Reinforcing: conventional deformed bar, welded wire and fibers


• Curing, surface treatments, liquid densifiers, polishing


• Plans and specifications: what the engineer should provide and what the contractor should expect


• Preconstruction coordination meeting


• Problem recognition and remediation

Locations & Dates   

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You will be sent a confirmation of your registration with the address of the Seminar. Please verify the date and location, since changes may occur.

Registration begins at 7:45 a.m. The seminar will begin at 8:00 a.m. and end at 5:00 p.m. Lunch will be from 12:00 p.m. to 1:00 p.m. Breakfast breads/pastries, lunch, coffee breaks, and publications are included in your registration fee.

Faculty   

Two of the following will be your instructors:

Barry E. Foreman, PE, Director, Providence Engineering Corp., Lancaster, PA. Mr. Foreman is a structural engineer with over 35 years experience working nationwide in the design of industrial buildings with a special emphasis on distribution warehouses, cold storage buildings and food processing facilities. Mr. Foreman has extensive experience in the design and construction of slabs-on-grade, especially for the high loadings and wear imposed by racking systems and material handling equipment in manufacturing and distribution centers, including high-rise, rack-supported structures with automated material handling systems. In addition to typical structural engineering design practice, Mr. Foreman specializes in floor slab design and construction consulting, forensic consulting and concrete mix design consulting services. He has written numerous publications for the concrete industry, including, “Adding Air to Freezer Floors”, “Designers: Pay Attention to Slabs on Grade” and “Concrete Floor Slabs for Industrial Facilities”. Mr. Foreman is currently the Chair of ACI 360, Design of Slabs on Ground and voting member of committees ACI 302, Construction of Concrete Floors and ACI 223, Shrinkage-Compensating Concrete.

Jerry A. Holland, PE, FACI, Director of Design Services, Structural Services Inc., Atlanta, GA. He has over 45 years of worldwide experience in design, construction, and troubleshooting concrete materials, floors, pavements, other structures, and related geotechnical issues. He specializes in concrete mixes, floor slabs on ground including superflat and other specialty floors and suspended slabs, fiber reinforcement, post-tensioning, shrinkage-compensating concrete, paving, white-topping and other overlays, previous concrete and liquid containing structures. He has had past projects in every state in the U.S. and on every continent except Antarctica. Mr. Holland is a Fellow of the American Concrete Institute, a past Chair and member of ACI 360, Design of Slabs on Grade; and a member of ACI C640, Concrete Flatwork Craftsmen Certification; ACI 223, Shrinkage-Compensating Concrete; ACI 302, Construction of Concrete Floors; ACI 325, Concrete Pavement; ACI 330, Concrete Parking Lots and Site Paving; ACI 350, Environmental Structures; and ACI 522, Previous Concrete.

Arthur W. McKinney, PE, SE, FACI, FACEC, LEED AP, practicing Structural Engineer with 46 years of experience with industrial floors; including detail design, construction, testing, forensic analysis and remediation in an international practice. Mr. McKinney is Chairman of McKinney and Company, Ashland, VA, a full service planning, design, and construction company, which includes a certified testing and materials development laboratory and services. Active in ACI, Mr. McKinney is a member and past Chair of ACI 360, Design of Slabs on Ground; a member of ACI 117, Tolerances, a member of ACI 302, Construction of Concrete Floors and a member of ACI 301G, Industrial Floors.

Richard E. Smith, Vice President of Operations, Structural Services, Inc., Richardson, TX. He has over 23 years experience in the design, construction, and evaluation of high-performance industrial and exposed concrete retail slabs-on-ground, troubleshooting , surface and joint remediation and improved surface finishing and polishing practice. Prior to joining SSI, Mr. Smith was manager of engineering services for a leading fiber-producing company, focusing on the advancement of industrial floor slabs, industrial floor overlays, elevated deck construction, pavements, bridge deck overlays, impact resistant concrete, fiber reinforced shotcrete, precast products and various other fiber applications. Mr. Smith guided the development of Steel Reinforced Concrete Design Guide and Slab on Ground Computer Program for design professionals. He is a member of ACI 360, Design of Slabs on Ground; and ACI 544, Fiber Reinforced Concrete, and ACI 302, Construction of Concrete Floors.

NOTE: ACI is not responsible for the statements or opinions expressed by the Faculty. If necessary to substitute an instructor an individual with similar qualifications will be used.