Thickening
Slab thickening may be incorporated into the slab where:
- load bearing internal walls occur
- the wall is more than 1 metre away form the nearest internal stiffening beam.
This is done to strengthen this part of the slab. The slab thickness is increased to 150 mm for a width of 500 mm.
![Diagram of a concrete slab with both load bearing and non-load bearing walls. The concrete slab has additional reinforcement and has a 500 mm width of additional slab thickening.](images/page_002.gif)