Patent ID: 8984841
Filing Date: 2015-03-24
Classification: E04B

Abstract:
1. A method of constructing a concrete roof, comprising the steps of: providing walls forming a periphery of a building, the walls enclosing an inner area of the building, the area having an open top; installing a plurality of parallel elongate support members spanning the area across the open top; installing a plurality of adjacent elongate dome-shaped metal elements spanning the area across the open top, each of the dome-shaped elements having a convex upper surface and a concave lower surface, the dome-shaped elements having adjacent opposing elongate edges supported on the elongate support members; forming a cement mixture; applying a layer of the cement mixture to directly cover the upper convex surfaces of the elongate dome-shaped elements to form a roof for the building, the cement layer having a top surface; and applying a covering layer to the top surface of the cement layer.