Industrial concrete floors placed accurately, finished properly and built for demanding environments
MCMurdie Contracts LTD provides industrial concrete flooring for warehouses, agricultural buildings, workshops, factories, commercial units and other large floor areas. Using laser screed technology, concrete can be placed to controlled levels across large areas, helping achieve a flatter, more consistent finished floor while improving the speed and accuracy of the pour.
What’s involved
Industrial flooring starts long before the concrete arrives. The formation and sub-base need to be prepared and compacted correctly, levels have to be established, reinforcement or fibres installed where specified, and joints planned before the slab is poured. Once the concrete is placed, a laser screed uses a laser-controlled levelling system to strike the concrete to the required height while vibrating and consolidating the material. This gives much tighter control over the finished slab than levelling large areas manually. After screeding, the surface is finished to suit the intended use of the building, including power-floated finishes where a dense, smooth and durable industrial surface is required.
Good to know
What a laser screed does
A laser screed continuously checks the height of the concrete against a laser reference while the machine levels and vibrates the slab. This allows large areas to be placed accurately and consistently, reducing high and low spots across the floor. It is particularly useful on warehouses, industrial units and other buildings where flatness and level control matter.
Flatness matters in industrial buildings
An industrial floor may need to support forklift trucks, pallet racking, machinery and heavy vehicle movements. Uneven floors can affect material-handling equipment, racking installation and the way machinery sits on the slab. Controlling the concrete level during the pour gives the trades that follow a better surface to work from.
The sub-base is just as important as the concrete
A floor slab can only perform properly if the ground underneath it has been prepared correctly. Formation levels, compacted sub-base, insulation where required, membranes and reinforcement all need to be completed before the pour begins. Because MCMurdie Contracts LTD also carries out groundworks, foundations and reinforced concrete, these stages can be coordinated as one package rather than handed between several contractors.
More to know
Reinforcement and fibre concrete
Industrial slabs can be designed using traditional steel reinforcement, steel fibres, synthetic fibres or a combination depending on the structural engineer's specification. The reinforcement controls cracking and helps the slab carry the loads it has been designed for. MCMurdie Contracts LTD works to the reinforcement details and slab specification provided for the project.
Power-floated concrete finishes
Where a hard, smooth industrial surface is required, the concrete can be power floated after placing. The timing of the finishing process is important. The concrete needs to be firm enough to support the machines while still allowing the surface to be worked. Repeated passes progressively close and smooth the surface, producing the dense finish commonly used in warehouses, workshops and industrial buildings.
Joints and crack control
Concrete naturally shrinks as it cures, so industrial floor slabs are normally divided into planned areas using construction joints, isolation joints or saw-cut contraction joints. Correct joint positioning helps control where movement occurs and reduces the risk of uncontrolled cracking through the finished floor.
Why people choose us
Ground preparation and concrete handled together
MCMurdie Contracts LTD can prepare the formation, install the sub-base and carry the work through into the reinforced concrete floor, keeping the critical levels coordinated from the ground upwards.
Laser-controlled accuracy
Laser screed technology allows large floor areas to be placed to controlled levels with a more consistent finish than traditional manual screeding over the same area.
Built around the floor specification
Slab depth, reinforcement, concrete grade, joint layout, finished levels and surface requirements are followed from the structural and flooring specification supplied for the project.
Suitable for large commercial pours
The method is particularly suited to larger floor areas where speed, consistency and level control become increasingly important.
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