Site visit

This is the second site visit i did to a completed building. This building is a performing arts building for my local high school. It is quite interesting as it uses a both structural tilt-up concrete panels and steel framing for the walls.

This is a picture of the exterior of the building. You can see that the side walls are made from tilt-up concrete panels and the end of the building is made from a steel frame with metal sheet walling attatched to it.

This picture shows the interior of the building. You can see how the rafters attatch to the concrete panels at the wall then behind the shade cloth attatched to the wall on the right is steel framing which then has girts and sheet walling attached to it. I was unable to take a photo of this because it had shade cloth over it and you couldnt see through it.

This picture shows up close how the steel rafter is bolted into the concrete panel which supports it and holds up the roof. You can also see the girt or purlin (im not sure which one it would be in this case as it is attatched to the rafter but then attatched to the wall and not the roof) attatched to the rafter and then bolted onto the concrete panel.

This picture is a little hard to see due to the bad lighting and my camaras flash didnt reach that high(had lots more photos but most of them were really hard to see because of this same reason). But the picture is of a bend in the rafter and how there are two purlins each side of the bend for each angle of roofing and also the two lots of bracing which is also required for each angle.