Major Assignment

These is my major assignment assignment.
Basically it is a steel portal frame, with a pre-cast concrete panel envelope system.

These were the posters







































These are more pix of my 3D Model, which I created in Google Sketchup.

The model took about 6.5 hours of work to complete.













The front and back parts of the building are clad in Colorbond steel.

Portal Frames

From Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia

Portal frame construction is a method of building and designing simple structures, primarily using steel or steel-reinforced precast concrete although they can also be constructed using laminated timber such as Glulam. The connections between the columns and the rafters are designed to be moment resistant, i.e. they can carry bending forces.

Because of these very strong and rigid joints some of the bending moment in the rafters is transferred to the columns. This means that the size of the rafters can be reduced or the span can be increased for the same size rafters. This makes portal frames a very efficient construction technique to use for wide span buildings.

Portal frame construction is therefore typically seen in warehouses, barns and other places where large, open spaces are required at low cost and a pitched roof is acceptable.

Generally portal frames are used for single storey buildings but they can be used for low rise buildings with several floors where they can be economic if the floors do not span right across the building (in these circumstances a skeleton frame, with internal columns, would be a more economic choice). A typical configuration might be where there is office space built against one wall of a warehouse.

Portal frames can be clad with all sorts of material but the most popular solution, for reasons of economy and speed, is some form of lightweight insulated metal cladding with cavity masonry work to the bottom 2m of the wall to provide security and impact resistance. The lightweight cladding would be carried on sheeting rails spanning between the the columns of the portal frames.

Article On Portal Frames

Article on Pre-Cast Concrete

Better For Business
Source: Construction Contractor

A RECENT study has found that the 10 largest regional centres in Victoria provide many attractive business cost advantages compared to Melbourne. The Benchmarking Regional Business Costs study found that overall, the 10 regional cities offered lower labour costs, lower commercial and industrial building and land costs, a greater availability of vacant industrial land and a greater proportion of residents with trades education and training. The study was completed by Essential Economics for Regional Cities Victoria (RCV) and Regional Development Victoria in 2006.

One success story in the area of construction is Precast Concrete. Anything in concrete seems to be the name of the game at Precast Concrete in Victoria’s rapidly expanding South Wangaratta Industrial Area. “This area is perfect for us, we source all our raw materials locally and with excellent road links, we service a wide variety of customers within a 100 km radius of Wangaratta,” says Morris Hill, owner of Precast Concrete.

Initially a one person operation, the company has had 25 per cent year on year growth resulting in 11 people working in the facility now. The diverse product range now available has given Hill interesting possibilities, one of which was the move in 2005 to the new premises in South Wangaratta.

When operation commenced in 1996 it would have been difficult to envisage the size of business that has now developed. With only about six companies in the field, the move to bigger premises enabled a streamlining of the operation and an expansion of the product range.

Got my architect; Tadao Ando...

Tadao Ando is a Japanese architect. He works primarily in exposed cast-in-place concrete and is renowned for an exemplary craftsmanship which invokes a Japanese sense of materiality, junction and spatial narrative through the pared aesthetics of international modernism.

His use of concrete panels is the main reason why i chose him as the master acrhitect in this project...





Examples of his architecture are the following pieces of art:


Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth: Fort Worth, Texas.















The Church Of The Light; Ibaraki, Osaka, Japan.



















Times Gallery; Kyoto, Japan.





















Morimoto Restaurant; Manhattan, USA.

Gutters.

Wassup people. Been pretty busy in the past couple of weeks but I'm hitting my SRT251 blog up with these very informative pix on nothing but wonderful gutters...



What yu know about dat huh...?



















Anotha gutter detail from a wall section. Pretty Detailed.










Hope ya'll took notes. Thank the Lord for the person who invented Gutters. Without them, society would really know what its like to get down and dirty...!

Thanks, and remember to keep it real G.

(Damn, if we ever have Blog awards, remember me...)

MORE PORTAL FRAME SECTIONS

These babies just keep on comin... These ones are of the other side of the building. In other words they sections through the long side of the building, perpendicular to the rafters.


A plan has bee posted for your convenience. Enjoy playa's....

Dont worry,... This is just another section of a different point on the building but along the same plane.... Dont get your panties in a bunch...!!!