pan joist system

construction

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use in building construction

  • construction of apartment buildings
    In construction: Concrete

    One is the pan joist system, a standardized beam and girder system of constant depth formed with prefabricated sheet-metal forms. A two-way version of pan joists, called the waffle slab, uses prefabricated hollow sheet-metal domes to create a grid pattern of voids in a solid floor slab, saving…

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