Category: BLOG 2013/14

Archive of all student BLOG posts from 2013/14

Week 2 – Time Kitilimtrakul

Fitzroy Place

Architect: Lifschutz Davidson Sandilands and Sheppard Robinson

Developer: Ken Shuttleworth, Christian and Nick Candy

Building component: façade – structure – foundation Dimension: 95,000 m2 floor area, 100m*150m construction area

Materials: palette of brick, cast metal, natural stone, reinforced concrete and precast concrete

reinforced concrete: foundation hole is dug out, metal rods are then placed and filled up with concrete. Concrete is a mixture of coarse and fine aggregates with a paste of cement and water. it is suitable for load-bearing members of structures and high density and great strength. The material has good thermal compatibility, durable and strong. However, it has low tensile strength and ductility. Casting concrete with reinforcement such as steel eliminates this problem.

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Week2_Jacek Rewinski

CITY ROAD HOTEL:

Squire and Partners

 

1 Structural Engineer: Adams Kara Taylor

Services Engineer: Hoare Lea

Contractor: SGP Contracts Ltd

 

2 Building component:

Steel Structure (all pillars, beams, decking)

Pillars 410 x 180 mm; 74kg/m;

Beams 200 x 130 mm; 30kg/m;

Construction: elements prefabricated; Pro: speed of construction; Con: transport;

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Building: 5 Broadgate, City of London

Architect: Make architects

Engineer: Buro Happold

Contractor: Mace

Element:Perforated metal beams, roughly 4m long and 40cm deep, joint with other beams and metal slabs.

Material: Steel, prefabricated in factory and transported to the construction site. Cross section is shaped as an I and optimised with circle cuts on the thinnest part to take some weight away.  This type of optimised beam is called cellular beam: it can be either fabricated in two parts, which are welded together, or a single part from which the circles are cut off.

Construction Site

5 Broadgate

wk02 site photo – Yonathan Moore

Project info: 11 Soho street; Architect: Allford Hall Managhan Morris; Civil and structural engineer: The Walsh Group; Mechanical engineer: MTT;  contractor: Waters construction.

explanation of building component: panel slab framework – beam. 150x10x30. 5kg.

 

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material study: aluminium;  fabrication : The company Peri manufactures most of it’s products in it’s production plant in Weissenhorn.

Hollow beam, strong material, Light, Expensive. Good for it’s use as it is a re-usable component (only supporting the casting of the concert floor), and needs to be dismantled and reassembled thus needs to be light and strong. It has a shape made to interlock with other components of the slab panel easily, with abilities of self drainage.

 

 

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