Cannabis grow houses with a monolithic concrete slab

Part 1

Today we broke ground on a series of monolithic concrete slabs for a series of cannabis grow buildings.

Each slab will support a red steel building with footprint that measures 165ft x 30ft. We will be doing a “mono pour’ for the slab, meaning the entire thing is poured in one go, consuming over 90 cubic yards of concrete!

The area for the footings are dug extra wide, allowing us plenty of room to work on construction the concrete forms. We build the forms using double height 2x12 lumber, which are attached to concrete form stakes using screws. This will aid us in stripping the forms after the pour. The area for the actual slab was created with a layer of rock and fines and then compacted to be level.

Concrete is naturally porous, so we add a vapor barrier to mitigate any moisture rising up from the ground and through the slab. After that we add our rebar, which will provide the tensile strength to the concrete slab and we are ready for the pour.

The owner of Packer Concrete Design has past experience in building pole barns and red steel buildings, so we will also be project managing and participating in the construction of the actual grow houses.