Time to cast some irl stuff, Recently I've come across this monstrosity on a new social housing project where I’m an intern doing the sewer and roadworks.

The entire thing was designed with pavers on a 200mm lean concrete base on top of a 250mm recycled aggregate sub base, already overkill but then came this work of art.

In order to "protect" the existing Oak, instead of pavers they wanted a monolithic reinforced concrete slab to minimize ground pressure. Specs called for a 180mm slab with 2 layers or 16mm rebar "nets" with 100mm spacing. (in freedom units: 7in slab, 5/8in rebar 4in spacing)

I had already seen some silly specs and overkill design before but this one took it to a whole new level.

𝘺𝘢𝘱𝘱𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘰𝘯 𝘧𝘢𝘳𝘤𝘢𝘴𝘵𝘦𝘳.

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So who gets the kickbacks for the extra infra?

Massive overdesign,This level of reinforcement is excessive for a surface carrying only pedestrian or light vehicular loads.

Basically the cost, labor, and material usage are exteremely disproportionate to the functional demands

wait i don't have context for what it should be. what's wrong here? they just did way too much? and to protect what oak?

Solarpunk ☀️
/replacereality 
 /flows
/permacoolture