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Detailing a Brick Facing on a Concrete Frame
This chapter discusses the project, which is a 17?story luxury apartment building in a mountainous area of the Pacific Northwest. The location is in Seismic Design Category D and in International Energy Conservation Code (IECC) Climate Zone 4. The owner desired a well?finished, durable building. Seismic requirements of the International Building Code (IBC) apply to the design of the structure and cladding. It was a wish to face the building with brick masonry. A brick exterior is attractive to the eye and gives an impression of quality and permanence, the more so because it is a surface that ages gracefully, even improving with age. It was concluded that there were unanswered questions concerning the long?term durability and safety of brickwork attached to steel stud walls. For the building, in which durability is a major design criterion, it was opted to design an all?masonry wall for construction. It was required to look closely at the construction of the shelf angle, soft joint, and flashing. It was found that one needed a larger scale of drawing; therefore, a detail at one?half full size was prepared. The soft joint that was proposed was 32 mm, which is unusually thick. The joint was made thick because one need to be extremely careful to allow for the creep and deflection that one expects in the concrete frame.
Detailing a Brick Facing on a Concrete Frame
This chapter discusses the project, which is a 17?story luxury apartment building in a mountainous area of the Pacific Northwest. The location is in Seismic Design Category D and in International Energy Conservation Code (IECC) Climate Zone 4. The owner desired a well?finished, durable building. Seismic requirements of the International Building Code (IBC) apply to the design of the structure and cladding. It was a wish to face the building with brick masonry. A brick exterior is attractive to the eye and gives an impression of quality and permanence, the more so because it is a surface that ages gracefully, even improving with age. It was concluded that there were unanswered questions concerning the long?term durability and safety of brickwork attached to steel stud walls. For the building, in which durability is a major design criterion, it was opted to design an all?masonry wall for construction. It was required to look closely at the construction of the shelf angle, soft joint, and flashing. It was found that one needed a larger scale of drawing; therefore, a detail at one?half full size was prepared. The soft joint that was proposed was 32 mm, which is unusually thick. The joint was made thick because one need to be extremely careful to allow for the creep and deflection that one expects in the concrete frame.
Detailing a Brick Facing on a Concrete Frame
Allen, Edward (editor) / Rand, Patrick (editor)
Architectural Detailing ; 311-344
2016-05-31
34 pages
Article/Chapter (Book)
Electronic Resource
English
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