Future-proof building thanks to smart structural floor system

Slimline is a unique combination of a ceiling, installation space and top floor. The Slimline floor system is thinner, lighter and more flexible than alternative floor and ceiling systems and is characterized by excellent sound insulation properties. This makes the Slimline floor concept suitable for use in offices, apartment complexes, residential-care complexes, multifunctional buildings and for building on existing foundations, among others.

From June 2024, this floor system will be exclusively marketed by REPPEL. "The Slimline floor system has been on the market since 1998 and was developed at the time on the basis of Industrial, Flexible and Demountable Construction, also known as IFD construction," says Reginald van Dooremalen of REPPEL. "This construction method makes it possible to use the same building for longer periods of time, with different users. As a manufacturer and supplier of the LEWIS® Dovetailed Sheets® used for the top floor of the floor system, we have been involved from the beginning in projects where Slimline floors have been used."

Specialist in floor systems

REPPEL has been in business for more than 90 years as a manufacturer and supplier of flooring systems. Having started out in 1930 as a distributor of the well-known LEWIS® Dovetailed Sheets®, the Dordrecht-based company has experienced considerable growth and development. Now REPPEL can call itself the specialist of a complete package of floor solutions for new construction, rebuilding, renovation and redevelopment. Following in the footsteps of the LEWIS® Dovetailed Sheets®, the HODY® steel sheet concrete floors, the OP-DECK® insulated concrete floor system and the LEWIS® Steelframe Concrete Floor (SCF), for example, are attracting a great deal of attention from architects, structural engineers and construction companies. And REPPEL also has high expectations for the Slimline floor system.

Hybrid building structures

"Currently, you hear more and more about hybrid construction," Van Dooremalen knows. "In hybrid building construction, different building materials and techniques are cleverly combined so that the (sustainable) advantages of each material are optimally utilized. For the Slimline floor system, this construction method is certainly not new. Already in 2016, the Patch22 live/work building was commissioned in Amsterdam. In this 30-meter-high wooden building, the upper floors were implemented with the Slimline floor system."

With the Slimline floor system and the LEWIS® Steelframe Concrete Floor, REPPEL now has a precast floor system with hollow installation space available for every sustainably designed, adaptable building.