Dead Load

Dead load is the permanent, static weight of the building and its fixed components. Structural slab, raised access floor, ceiling systems, fixed partitions, and installed MEP services. Unlike live loads (furniture, people, equipment), dead loads do not change once construction is complete.

In fit-out projects, understanding the structural slab's dead and live load capacity is critical before specifying heavy elements: a stone reception desk, a server room with dense equipment racking, a raised access floor with a 300 mm void, or a mezzanine. A project in Hadapsar retrofitted a dense battery bank for a large UPS without checking the slab's dead load capacity. The resulting structural remediation cost was significant. Always get a structural engineer to confirm capacity before adding any significant non-standard load to an existing floor.

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