Steel Construction Detailing

Nowadays Steel construction has taken the major portion of Construction industry as steel is used in majority of building due to its durability and strength. The strength and durability of steel is proved to be great advantage for buildings. Along with these two core benefits the structure employed steel as main component has numerous merits that leads the building for efficient survival. Some the advantages of steel structures are: Steel Structures take less time to construct. The erection is super quick in the case of steel structure. They are flexible to fair extent, that’s why steel is good in withstanding the dynamic forces such as earthquake or wind. The availability of ready-made structural sections is in wide ranges that spans from I, C, and angle sections. They not only possess the physical flexibility but also hold the structural flexibility leads to taking any shape it wants and appareled with any material. There are plenty of joining methods ar...

Recently held Paris Contemporary Art Fair has witnessed an unusual yet productive entity. For the first time there was a display of Steel Kiosque Unit created by famous French Designers Ronan and Erwan Bouroullec which is presently situated in Jardin des Tuileries. It was developed by Paris property developer Emerige. This brown chocolate steel container has unveiled in Paris Contemporary Art Fair which held between 22 nd to 25 th October. It was there till 5 th November but soon will be donated to the city of Paris where the container will bring in use for various social and cultural tasks by taking it to different venues as it is a moving steel container unit. Bouroullec Brothers has taken three year for designing and styling the Steel Kiosque Units and three hours to make it movable. Steel Kiosque Units is the of twin steel container standing side by side over a wheel. Whole structure goes by a single zigzag roof covers the two structure which are exactly th...

Something which marks the new era will always be considered as great in historical pages. Same is the case of America where Inland Steel Building has marked the beginning of modern commercial tall building in Chicago. It was first building which has made post World War -ɪɪ and Great Depression of 1930 in Chicago Loop. Situated in 30 W. Monroe Street, It has designed by Bruce Graham and Walter Netscape of Skid more , Owings & Merrill. Inland Steel Building is head quarter of Inland Steel Company which was established in 1930’s and at the 8 th rank of steel company in 1950’s. They wanted to mark their success by making an innovative and modern building and this is how Inland Steel Building has established. Inland Steel is a 101.30 m high building with 25 story. The building is designed as square steel grids fitted on green glass. Like every building Inland Steel has got an impressive facade. The facade is gray and made of steel. It contains windows of glazed gr...