Steel Construction Detailing

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...

One Raffles Place is a high-rise building to be found in Downtown Core, Singapore, construction for the one was commenced in year 1980 which was accomplished in the year 1986. The structure is one of the tallest structures in the republic as well was tallest in the world on accomplishment outer to northern America. The structure rises to the peak height of 280 meters and resides 63 floors exclusive of 4 lower ground floors, the tower acquires overall floor area of 101,784 square meters with one more tower for which construction was started in 2008 and was accomplished in the year 2011 housing 38 floors not including 1 floor in the basement. The construction comprises of binary trilateral arrangements separated through a slight space amid them. Steel framework was utilized for the construction which allowed building an unrestricted office area and strengthened concrete portion mixture with a textured steel surface was used for floor structure. To plump out such structures wit...

Twin Sails Bridge Is a movable bridge; such bridges are commonly referred as Bascule Bridge. The bridge constructed in the year 2012 is located in Poole, England.The bridge, constructed in 5 spans has overall length of 138 meres and the distance across is 10.8 meters wide. The 5 span constructions comprises of 2 vehicular lanes and 2 separate cycle paths, in addition 2 cantilever walkways of 2.5 meters width are built. The dual mobile center section of the structure bears a resemblance to leaf, the lifting bridge extents to 23.4 meters which are planned to hinge to 88 degrees in approx. duration of 2 minutes. The construction cost for the world’s first triangular- leaf lifting bridge is £21,600,000. The structure is grounded on green factors;ecological assessment was undertaken all throughthe development together with managing the surplus resources and reprocessing tactic. Also thecenter lifting sections of the bridge was per-fabricated and conveyed to the location;...