Types of Upper Floors

The upper floors are commonly categorized on the basis of arrangement of beams and girders, or the framework, for supporting the flooring and the materials used in the whole floor construction. The several types of upper floors generally used are as follows:

(a)        Timber floors

(b)       Steel joists and flag stones, or precast concrete slabs floor

(c)        Jack arch floors

(d)       Reinforced Brick Flooring

(e)        Reinforced Cement Concrete (RCC) floor

(f)        Ribbed or hollow tiled flooring

(g)       Filler joists floors

(h)       Pre-cast concrete floors