Steel Lightens Concrete's Load on landscape
This article, a case study of 77 King street Sydney, highlights the advantages of structural steel can have when renovating existing buildings, heritage or other, particularly if adding extra floors. in this case the key factor, being the strength of the existing building below, meant that the lightweight composite steel frame construction was the least taxing and most time/cost effective design for the addition of extra floors.
Article Source: 'Steel Australia,' March '08, Vol.21, no.1, 'Cost model study- commercial buildings,' pp. 18 -19
Article Source: 'Steel Australia,' March '08, Vol.21, no.1, 'Cost model study- commercial buildings,' pp. 18 -19
1 comment:
That is a very coll building. I'd be interested to know how they actually built it!? It'd be interesting to see how the cranes got into that tight area. Nice article
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