site visit

This was my third site visit to a building under construction. It was in an industrial estate in Pakenham (other side of the city were i live) It was a really goood visit because they were in the process of putting up one of the trusses as i got there which was good to watch. However most of the building didnt exactly relate to my major assignment which was ashame but still good to see how they do it.

This is the truss being lifted into place by the crane.

This is a picture of the two workers on the cheery picker trying to direct the truss into place.

This is them trying to place the first end of the truss into the connection and bolt it in place.

This is the guy doing up the bolt so it stays in place. This was really good to see. He is using his right arm to hold a peice of metal which he is using to leaver it into place and make it tight while his using his left arm to do up the bolt while it is in place.

This is the truss in place and connected at one end. The crane is still taking the weight though.

This was good to see the truss didnt fit properly at one end. If you blow the picture up you can see that the truss coming the other way is getting in the way of it joining up to the column so they just got out the oxy tourch and cut away the bits that were in the way. I thought that they were made perfectly to size to engeneer specifications but dad (who is a build/architect) say that this happens all the time and although everything might work on paper is doesnt always work when it comes to putting them together.

After the guy had cut away the bottom so it could connect to the column he then had to make some new holes for the bolts to go through.

This is just a pic of the concrete panels and the connections built into them where the crane would attatch.
This just shows the roofing system and how it attatches to / is held up by the concrete panels.

Thsi shows a rafter with cleats and the purlins attatched to the cleats.

This is just a picture of c section girts and purlins lying on the ground waiting to be lifted into place.