GBC
Pressure

Pounds per Square Foot (psf)

Modern equivalent

47.88 Pascals

Used in older British structural engineering to describe building floor loads.

Structural engineers relied on psf to calculate dead loads and live occupancy weights across timber and steel flooring joists in Victorian and Edwardian architecture.

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