Title:
Gatorade Floor: Quenching Thirst, Joints, Cracks, and Curl
Author(s):
Donald A. Bailey, Edward J. Barbour, Scott W. Cupp, Jerry A. Holland, and David W. Knight
Publication:
Concrete International
Volume:
23
Issue:
1
Appears on pages(s):
23-29
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DOI:
Date:
1/1/2001
Abstract:
The focus of this article is on some of the unique features of the Gatorade facility's floors, which are significantly different from typical bottling or warehouse facility floors and even from many previously constructed high-quality floors. The final design of the floors specified over 415,000 ft2 (38,500 m2), most of which were shrinkage-compensating concrete, the design and construction of which incorporated the most advanced techniques available. Some of the design techniques were combined in ways never previously used to create floors of this type.