Architectural engineering. With special reference to high building construction, including many examples of Chicago office buildings (1895)
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ould,according to the building laws of most cities, have to beabout 6 feet thick. Through the use of skeleton construc-tion the enclosing walls in this building were made only 12and 16 inches thick. Fig. 48 shows the required thickness of walls under theChicago ordinance for buildings devoted to… … Fig. 48. Fig. 49. Fig. 50. the requirements for masonry walls (in office buildings)which carry their own weight only. CHAPTER VI. SPANDRELS AND SPANDREL SECTIONS—BAY WINDOWS, The spandrels constitute those portions of the exteriorwalls, either on the street fronts or in the interior court,which lie…
Building, Iron and steel
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