Description: Blog about Africa.
Blog about Africa.
We have all seen the tall network of steel beams stretching up above a building site, forming the internal skeleton of the buildings we live in, work in, and pass through in our daily lives. If you ever get the chance to watch a steel-frame building being constructed, it is a fascinating and enlightening experience. Even stopping by each day to check on progress is interesting. Taking a picture each day and then seeing them shown in rapid succession shows clearly how the structure takes shape, first with th
The process isn’t much different than it is when children build something out of sticks or certain kinds of blocks. Learn about perforated metal panels here . Strong beams are linked together to form frameworks with each part supporting and reinforcing the others. The beams themselves are moved onto the site on large trucks, and lifted into place by those tall cranes that tower over building sites, moving slowly around like the necks of mechanical dinosaurs. Vertical trusses bracket horizontal girders, leve