Week 7 Constructing Site Visiting

From the picture, it can be seen that the one material for this building is the concrete masonry, which is a hallow concrete masonry unit having a compressive strength from 600 to 1500 psi (Ching, 2008). It can observe easily from some walls of this building.

Getting more details about this building, it use the steel framing as the main structural system for this apartment building.

Moreover, the left hand picture show one steel framing, as said by the constructer, this is use for the supporting while constructing, and it will be remove after finishing.

This is the plasterboard, said by constructer , it has three different colours of plasterboards in this , and the different colours indicate different use , such as the red suggests the generic fire-resistant, the blue is used for wet or moist condition like in the bathroom.

This is pretty good example of door framing. The material used is the wood, and it is probably the surface sliding or pocket sliding door operation.

The right hand picture has indicated the structural system of this building. It has the trusses with the vertical columns , and it use the steel purlins and beams as for the roof system.

Reference: Ching, F 2008, Building Construction Illustrated, n.p.: Hoboken, N.J. : John Wiley & Sons, c2008

This is the tie hole of the concrete framework, which will pour the concrete through this hole to the wall system. From Ching(2008), the tie hole locations should be coordinated with the wall’s surface design.

This is the detail of the base for the roof system, and the picture also has showed the welded steel connections and bolted connection with two pieces of tab plates on each sides of the columns.

This is the roof of the building, and it is the metal roof decking, which is more widely supported by steel beams to serve as a base for thermals insulation and membrane roofing which can be seen from the picture in last page(Ching 2008).