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Bold cantilevers frame world's tallest prestressed building
Main feature of 430-ft high Gulf Life Bldg in Jacksonville, Fla, is series of spandrel beams that cantilever 42 ft and have marble-smooth, white finish; beam segments precast in epoxy-coated steel molds are placed on elaborate, temporary system of steel shoring trusses that support them while they are strung together with post-tensioning tendons; building has only eight columns, all exterior, at third points along walls of 144-ft square building; upper 25 floors and roof are framed with prestressed double tees spanning 43 ft between cast-in-place 53 ft square concrete service core, and deep, haunched girders.
Bold cantilevers frame world's tallest prestressed building
Main feature of 430-ft high Gulf Life Bldg in Jacksonville, Fla, is series of spandrel beams that cantilever 42 ft and have marble-smooth, white finish; beam segments precast in epoxy-coated steel molds are placed on elaborate, temporary system of steel shoring trusses that support them while they are strung together with post-tensioning tendons; building has only eight columns, all exterior, at third points along walls of 144-ft square building; upper 25 floors and roof are framed with prestressed double tees spanning 43 ft between cast-in-place 53 ft square concrete service core, and deep, haunched girders.
Bold cantilevers frame world's tallest prestressed building
Eng News-Rec
Engineering News-Record ; 177
1966
3 pages
Article (Journal)
English
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