Al Qusais and Muhaisnah ready mix for industry and housing

Industrial floors that last

A warehouse or workshop slab on grade is loaded by forklift wheels, pallet racking legs and sometimes heavy vehicles. Cracks open at the joints and spread from there. A fibre-reinforced mix gives the slab better resistance to early cracking and to impact at the surface, though the joint layout and slab thickness are still the designer's call.

Pour large floors in bays, each one continuous. A 60 m³ bay is five trucks; tell us the bay sequence and we keep the gap between loads short so the finishers work one consistent surface.

Accommodation blocks: same floor, many times

Staff accommodation is usually a simple concrete frame repeated over several floors. Speed matters to the contractor, but so does steady strength gain, because formwork is struck and reused. We batch the superstructure mix to the same design for every floor so striking times stay predictable.

The ground here is inland, with footings designed around load. Blinding goes down first; the substructure mix follows in pads, ground beams and the ground slab, at the exposure class on the drawings.

In apartment buildings the ground floor often carries shops with wider column spacing than the floors above. That can mean thicker slabs or transfer beams at first floor, which should be poured as one continuous element.

Access and timing

Al Qusais and Muhaisnah are about 23 km from our Al Quoz plant, normally via Sheikh Mohammed Bin Zayed Road or Damascus Street. Inland areas mean neighbours, working-hour rules and limited standing room for trucks, so check local restrictions before the pour. Each load is retarded for the trip, and in summer we recommend night or early starts to stay within placing-temperature limits.