Building Environment and Technology: Frame Structure

BUILDING ENVIROMENT ADN TECHNOLOGY AND FRAME STRUCTURE
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Contents
Introduction................................................................................................................ 2
Details of Proposed External Wall System.............................................................3
Options analysis and reasons selections..............................................................3
Details of the proposed roof.................................................................................... 5
Hipped Roof......................................................................................................... 5
Options and Reasons for the selection.................................................................6
Window System.................................................................................................... 7
Issues Associated with Energy............................................................................. 8
Principal concerns /issues to be addressed........................................................10
Space Heating at the centre..................................................................................11
Lighting strategy for the centre.........................................................................11
Conclusion................................................................................................................ 11
REFERENCES............................................................................................................ 13
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Introduction
As part of the proposal to the committee, the study has effectively identified and elaborated
the specific areas in regard to the construction of the community centre. The objective of this
paper was to structurally design steel reinforced portal frame elements like system of the roof,
column, external wall, pad foundation and primary beam compost of varied spacing for the
column in measurements of 12m and 6m. The vertical length of the proposed concrete portal
frame is 24m while the longitudinal length is 48m. Spacing is made by separating the columns at
intervals. The defined height for the portal frame is 7.5m with 6m as the height of the
column(Lähetkangas et al 2013).
Ancient studies for the design of steel portal frame were covered in “Structural
Engineering”, in which the learners could make slight changes on the height of the column and
on the span of the frame, but retaining the spacing for the column at their initial state. It therefore
appeals very important and interesting to make calculation analysis concerning the different pair
of column spacing(Wrzesien et al 2015). The findings are rejuvenating; shortening the length of
the column spacing alters its reinforcement amount, a column to be built by 4 T32 steel bars on
either side for the length of 12m, will now use only 4 T25 steel bars on either side for a length of
6m. The essential state is the similar cross section and concrete strength of 380 x 380 mm and
C50/60 bore by both respectively.
There is also no change made through TT-slabs selection since the load remains
constant for all the cases, which is load acting uniquely on the roof. There is no change either
brought by HTT-slabs selection since the same acting distributive force and building span
determines the variation. The HI-beams design, structure design of the wall and pad foundation
is however not affected by HTT-slab and TT-slab selection. The precast concrete sandwich panel
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