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Bearing walls eliminate columns in apartment building
Ten-story earthquake-resistant concrete structure has flush walls inside; no outside finish used; high-class apartment house, ten stories high, at Washington and Jones Sts., San Francisco, was designed so that walls, of strongly reinforced concrete, would carry loads to foundation without wall columns; structure is 55 × 58 ft. in plan; all walls are heavily reinforced with layers of vertical and horizontal steel at both faces; design for lateral forces.
Bearing walls eliminate columns in apartment building
Ten-story earthquake-resistant concrete structure has flush walls inside; no outside finish used; high-class apartment house, ten stories high, at Washington and Jones Sts., San Francisco, was designed so that walls, of strongly reinforced concrete, would carry loads to foundation without wall columns; structure is 55 × 58 ft. in plan; all walls are heavily reinforced with layers of vertical and horizontal steel at both faces; design for lateral forces.
Bearing walls eliminate columns in apartment building
Eng. News-Rec
Spitzer, F.H. (author)
Engineering News Record ; 101
1928
2 pages
3 Figs.
Article (Journal)
English
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