This project is for a single storey rear extension for a double storey detached house in Reading.
This is a typical 5 meters one storey rear extension. The ground floor is formed in 150mm thick reinforced concrete ground bearing slab reinforced with one layer of A252 mesh in top throughout.
The foundations are 600mm wide concentric mass concrete trench footings with minimum depth of 1000mm from ground level.
The roof is formed in flat roof joists bearing on timber plate on one side and steel beam B2 & Lintel L3 on the other side.
In the middle of the roof there is one bigger rooflight (2400 x 1600mm) supported with steel beams B3, B4, B5 & B6 (section size: 152 x 152 UC 37).
The structural drawings and calculations were submitted and approved by Building Control.
The building works were finished in approximately two months time.
