Steel stacks up
Constructing a 16-story addition atop a six-story building using only the original foundation is no simple task, especially when just a fraction of the columns can be strengthened. This was the challenge facing Thronton-Tomasetti Engineers (Newark, New Jersey, USA) in the structural design of the $3...
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| Veröffentlicht in: | Modern steel construction 2003-12, Vol.43 (12), p.34-38 |
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| Sprache: | eng |
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| Zusammenfassung: | Constructing a 16-story addition atop a six-story building using only the original foundation is no simple task, especially when just a fraction of the columns can be strengthened. This was the challenge facing Thronton-Tomasetti Engineers (Newark, New Jersey, USA) in the structural design of the $30 million expansion of the Buenos Aires headquarters of La Nacion, one of Argentina's leading newspapers. Steel was the only feasible structural system for the 16-story addition because of its light weight. |
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| ISSN: | 0026-8445 |