Say you were going to help locals in very rural Afghanistan build houses. Obviously material and skilled labor is unreliable. Also, don't count on much for building codes. It is a high seismic area.
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Assuming that one could actually design it to work, how practical do you think a composite wood-concrete floor system would be? It would be a precast conc. slab with a perforated, embedded T shape with the stem sticking out. A glulam beam would then be ripped with a grove to receive the stem...
