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Hangar at Rapid City, SD, has thin shell roof on reinforced concrete supports, clear span 340 ft, length 314 ft; total clearance at center 90 ft; foundation of buttresses required 616 precast concrete piles; construction of roof accomplished in sections 50 ft long with movable scaffolding; end walls consist of steel frame construction covered with insulated steel siding.
Hangar at Rapid City, SD, has thin shell roof on reinforced concrete supports, clear span 340 ft, length 314 ft; total clearance at center 90 ft; foundation of buttresses required 616 precast concrete piles; construction of roof accomplished in sections 50 ft long with movable scaffolding; end walls consist of steel frame construction covered with insulated steel siding.
Army builds record size hangar
Constructor
Carter, A.N. (author)
Constructor ; 30
1948
2 pages
Article (Journal)
English
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