Steel Construction Detailing

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...

Sidu River Bridge, positioned in Hubei province of China, is a suspension route journeying the Sidu River. Construction for the bridge was initiated in 2005 which was accomplished in the year 2009; the one was built at an estimated construction cost of US$ 100 million. The bridge spans an overall distance of 1,222 meters and lengthiest span of 900 meters with width of 24.5 meters whilst the ground clearance is 496 meters crafting it to be the highest bridge in the world.   The design of the bridge consists of H-shaped towers with a string reinforced central span and unsuspended sideway spans. Burrow tie up natured trusses were built in 71 segments of which the largest segment weighed 91.6 metric tons, the trusses are 21 feet high and 85 feet wide. The foremost suspension cable was set up utilizing a rocket as the bridge’s geographic location made it unmanageable to do the task using boats or helicopters which has been heretofore utilized to do the same, for the construc...

Torre Agbar, positioned in Barcelona, Spain is a high-rise building, an architectural icon of the city and is the utmost predominant structure for the one. Construction for the one was commenced in 1999 which was accomplished in 2004 and inaugurated in the following year; it was built at an assessed value of 130 million euros. The structure upsurges to the crowning height of 144.44 to the rooftop whist 128.3 meters to the topmost floor encompassing 33 floors and 4 underground rooms in total and dwell in floor area of 51,483 square meters. The multistory building is employed with 30,000 office space, 3,210 mechanical amenities, 8,132 facilities, an auditorium and about 9,132 square meters of space as parking area. The structure comes about as an astonishing one in million collection design of Structural Expressionism to be found in the city. It remembrances the shape of a geyser up surging in the air which was stimulated from a mountain sited in Barcelona eventually crafting as...