METHODS OF CONSTRUCTING BUILDINGS AND COMPONENTS THEREFOR

摘要

A method of constructing a building, including: driving a plurality of screw piles into the soil on which a building is to be constructed to a predetermined founding depth and in a predetermined array; casting a plurality of concrete floor panels remote from the soil on which the building is to be constructed, the floor panels being adapted to be joined together at predetermined edges to form the floor of the building to be constructed and to rest on selected ones of said plurality of screw piles respectively; and placing said concrete floor panels on the selected screw piles respectively such that they adjoin at said predetermined edges to form the floor of the building and such that at least a substantial part of each panel is spaced above the soil by a predetermined distance determined by reference to the swell potential of the soil.