Waffle Pod System
The Waffle Pod Footing system is an innovative method of constructing concrete slabs, providing enormous strength and durability and significantly reducing building costs. The system ‘on-ground’ rather than ‘in-ground’ slabs, eliminating the need for labour intensive trenching – formerly essential to create underfloor concrete beams in conventional slab construction methods. Construction takes place on cleared level surfaces, allowing work to continue uninterrupted in inclement weather conditions. The environment friendly system uses polystyrene void formers arranged on the leveled building area in a grid pattern with reinforcing between and above the void formers. Concrete fills the spaces between and across the Ribbed Raft to form a slab over the entire area. The spaces between the void formers effectively become concrete beams on ribs resulting in a slab which is a structural element of immense strength.
Waffle Pods are able to reduce intensive labour trenching as they are installed on-ground instead of in-ground. Installation occurs on cleared level surfaces which means wet weather won’t be an issue and each waffle pod slab provides tremendous strength as well as durability whilst also reducing construction costs. Waffle Pods are lightweight but are built strong and can handle the weight of numerous building workers and wet concrete during the site prep and pour.
