5/11/2013 1 BubbleDeck in the United States! GRAEF Project Engineer: Seth Pfeil, P.E. What is BubbleDeck? • Voided Two-Way Flat Plate • Use plastic spheres (bubbles) to displace concrete • Designs and Behaves like monolithic concrete • A merger of the best aspects of cast in place and precast concrete construction What is BubbleDeck? What is BubbleDeck? Top Pour Concrete Top Steel Mesh Steel Girder Pre-Cast Concrete Recycled Plastic Balls Bottom Steel Mesh What is BubbleDeck? What is BubbleDeck?
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BubbleDeck in the
United States!
GRAEF Project Engineer: Seth Pfeil, P.E.
What is BubbleDeck?
• Voided Two-Way Flat Plate• Use plastic spheres (bubbles) to
displace concrete• Designs and Behaves like
monolithic concrete• A merger of the best aspects of
cast in place and precast concrete construction
What is BubbleDeck? What is BubbleDeck?
Top Pour Concrete
Top Steel Mesh
Steel GirderPre-Cast Concrete
Recycled Plastic Balls
Bottom Steel Mesh
What is BubbleDeck? What is BubbleDeck?
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What is BubbleDeck? What is BubbleDeck?
What is BubbleDeck? What is BubbleDeck?
History of BubbleDeck
• Invented in Europe in 1995• Over 600 BubbleDeck projects
have been completed worldwide• Projects completed in several
European countries and Canada
A Smart Approach To
Green Buildings• BubbleDeck is an engineered system
where concrete is removed that has no load carrying benefit.
• The system uses 100% recycled plastic balls (“bubbles”) to displace the concrete floor slabs. (1 lb recycled plastic replaces 100 lb of concrete.)
• BubbleDeck buildings replace 35% of the raw materials with air.
• Virtually no formwork with filigree system
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Fire Resistance
• Calculated by the equivalent thickness method, IBC Section 721.2.2.1