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Apartment house rises from stacked module deck
Chemically prestressed concrete is used to cast 11×36 ft thin-wall units; two units are tied together to form apartment; units are made monolithic by cast, reinforced concrete; 40-ton crane handles stacking job; vertical post-tensioning and rebar steel up side of building help tie modules together; building made of mass-produced modules has 2 in. thick walls, 4 1/2 in. thick ceilings.
Apartment house rises from stacked module deck
Chemically prestressed concrete is used to cast 11×36 ft thin-wall units; two units are tied together to form apartment; units are made monolithic by cast, reinforced concrete; 40-ton crane handles stacking job; vertical post-tensioning and rebar steel up side of building help tie modules together; building made of mass-produced modules has 2 in. thick walls, 4 1/2 in. thick ceilings.
Apartment house rises from stacked module deck
Construction Methods and Equipment
Drossel, M.R. (author)
1968
2 pages
Article (Journal)
English
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