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  • What is the technical term for? (Structural Engineers may apply)
  • 40mpg
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    The perimeter upstand beam in a concrete (or other) frame which helps support the edge of a floor slab.

    Its a multi-storey building with ribbon windows. The wall below the windows is part of the structure. If I cut this, the floor will probably collapse, but I can’t remember what its called!

    Also, can I have the number for the early-onset alzheimers helpline, or at least another cup of coffee please 😀

    brakes
    Free Member

    :cue lots of frantic googling by people who are not structural engineers:

    iolo
    Free Member

    Ring beam?

    40mpg
    Full Member

    Not ring-beam. It has finally come to me however. Kudos to the first to correctly guess!

    pearlbaz
    Free Member

    a sleeper wall?

    maxtorque
    Full Member

    stickyoutybitthefloorysittysoney ??

    (That’s a guess, i’m not a structural engineer btw 😉

    porlus
    Free Member

    Was going to say ring beam.

    takisawa2
    Full Member

    Perimeter Upstand Beam

    wukfit
    Free Member

    Jim Beam?

    aP
    Free Member

    From conversations recently on something I’m working on they’re apparently also very inefficient compared to a downstand beam.
    We might be going for a fat slab to gain 350mm per floor (overall depth).

    mrchrispy
    Full Member

    it’ll be something like flange, gusset or clunge.
    you know the dirty mind structural engineers have

    porlus
    Free Member

    member is a good one to get in as well.

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