Skyscraper Floor Thickness

My question is how thick is it normally between the ceiling to the floor on the floor above.

Skyscraper floor thickness.

Typical slab floor thickness in buildings. The height of each storey is based on the ceiling height of the rooms plus the thickness of the floors between each pane. In residential buildings you will see bulkheads used more commonly as well as some with inslab venting. The same floor if framed with 2 by 12s will be 13 1 4 inches thick.

I have found tons of information about how thick the concrete slabs normally are but i am interested in how much space is normally needed for the entire thing everything between floor and the ceiling below. It is a 5 story office building. However it varies widely from just under this figure to well over it. So say you have a commercial building with 12 clear between floors take 2 of that for mech elec.

If course you still have to reckon either the depths of the steel beams which will typically be from 18 to 24 deep 500mm to 650mm with some up to 30 to 36 850mm to 950mm. The tallest skyscraper in the world burj khalifa has 163 floors. The destructive effects of automobiles are much less a cause than a symptom of our. Many buildings also have diagonal beams running between the girders for extra structural support.

Generally this is around 14 feet 4 3 m total. Click build to see how the parts of a skyscraper work together.