Site Visits

These pictures are all pictures from two site visits i did for the assignment. They were in different stages of construction and using slightly different building methods and were also very different sized buildings. However both were very interesting and helpful.

This first picture just shows where the steel ub attatches to the pad footing and how it is bolted down.

This shows the rafters lying on the ground on site ready to be lifted into position.



This just shows two columns with a single girt in between them and also the cleats below it to which the other girts will b attatched.


This was the builders tightening up the bracing. It was quite interesting to see how they did this.


These are purlins and girts on the ground also ready to be lifted into position by a crane.

This shows how the extirior cladding is attatched to the girts and then how the girts attatch to the cleats and columns.

This shows the roofing in its different stages. First they but up all the framing then they run the wire mesh out over the top of that to make sure that when they put the roofing materials on they dont fall through before they are attatched. After this they lay the insulation and then put the sheet roofing straight over the top of that. Its inportant that the insulation and sheet roofing go down at the same time as the insulation can not really get wet.

This just shows how the rafter has the cleat welded onto it then the purlin just bolts straight onto that then the mesh is just run over the top of all of them.

This is basicly the same picture as the last exept the roofing has been completed and it now has insulaton and sheet(which you cannot see in this pic) roofing over it.

This picture shows how the precast tilt up concrete panels are connected to the slab. Seeing how the panels worked was really interesting and helpful.

This shows the connection between two concrete panels and the filler that they put in between them.

This pic just shows the insulation on the roof waiting and ready to be layed out.

This picture shows the tops of the precast tilt up concrete panels and how the crane connects to them to lift them into place.

This picture just shows the different stages of the roofing. Tou can clearly see mesh, insulation and sheet roofing in this picture.

This is the apex of the roof and is just showing the capping to make shure the roof does not leak.

This shows the roof in all stages with the sheet roofing on then with just with mesh layed and then with nothing but the framing up.

This is a picture that kind of shows how the sheet roofing is connected to the purlins. This device is attatched to the purlins then the sheet roofing just clicks onto it and is help down which means no bolts are required to go through the actual roof.

This another picture of the connection between concrete panels but this is before the filler has been put in.

They also let us look at some of the drawings for the project and this is just a picture of a page of details which show how the concrete panels will connect to everything.