Construction Site Visit 2

These images are taken from a industrial development in Pakenham on Borham road. This is a great example of prefabricaed concrete construction, steel work, and how they are combined to for this structure. All the components we have looked at during the beginning of the semester are clearly illustrated here such as: Mullion, purlins, and the haunching.

Construction Detail of a Portal Frame

This section is a construction detail through a steel portal frame. This is a basic illustration which shows three basic structural elements in a portal frame. The first is a stanchon, it is usually a UB, specified by the engineer. The stanchon is placed on a concrete pad foundation, and is connected by hold down bolts. The upper part of the stanchon has a bolted connection to the UB Beam also specified by the engineer and the haunching. Haunching is usually about 15 – 20% of the span, it is an additional member to reinforce the column and beam joint, for this is where maximum stress occurs.

This is my second site visit, this building holds the carosol on the waterfront in Geelong. I is quite an interesting building, the curved form is unique and very interesing in how they have used curved steel members to create the roof line. I love the way the curved roof members meet the columns and that the columns are actually inside the bulding.

Construction detail of Brick Veneer House

This is a construction detail of a single story brick veneer house.

Federation Square

Federation Square was completed in October 2002 and is located in the CBD of Melbourne. The architects for this project were; Lab Architecture and Bates Smart. The Atrium venue is constructed with glass, steel and zinc. The exposed galvanised frame is constructed with triangular geometric shapes, creating intersting steel structural work, as shown above.