Architectural engineering. With special reference to high building construction, including many examples of Chicago office buildings (1895)
Freitag, Joseph Kendall · New York, J. Wiley & sons; [etc., etc.] · leaf 68
hollow-tile arches werebeing set for the fifteenth floor,—all at the same time. Several gangs of men may frequently be seen at dif-ferent levels on a single front of a building, and layingpressed-brick by electric light was even tried on the Ash-land Block, Chicago, in an endeavor to complete the… … Fig. 21.—The Reliance Building during Construction, August i, 1894. ARCHITECTURAL ENGINEERING. Figs. 20 and 21 show the Reliance Building during con-struction. PERMANENCY OF SKELETON CONSTRUCTION. Aside from the question of fire resistance, considerablediscussion has arisen of late concerning the…
Building, Iron and steel
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