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2. Staggered truss system - Wikipedia

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   The staggered truss system for steel framing is an efficient structural system for high-rise apartments, hotels, motels, dormitories, and hospitals. The arrangement of story-high trusses in a staggered pattern at alternate column lines provide large column-free areas for room layouts. [2] These column free areas can be utilized for ballrooms ...

3. Formwork - Wikipedia

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   Formwork. Animation depicting construction of multi-story building using aluminum handset formwork. Modular steel frame formwork for a foundation. Rebar has been stubbed up out of the concrete slab to form the base of future columns. Timber formwork for a concrete column.

4. Prefabricated building - Wikipedia

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   A prefabricated building, informally a prefab, is a building that is manufactured and constructed using prefabrication. It consists of factory-made components or units that are transported and assembled on-site to form the complete building. Various materials were combined to create a part of the installation process.

5. List of tallest freestanding steel structures - Wikipedia

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   This is a list of tallest freestanding steel structures in the world past and present. To be a freestanding steel structure it must not be supported by guy wires, the list therefore does not include guyed masts and the main vertical and lateral structural elements and floor systems in the case of buildings, are constructed from steel.

6. Structural steel - Wikipedia

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   Structural steel. Structural steel is a category of steel used for making construction materials in a variety of shapes. Many structural steel shapes take the form of an elongated beam having a profile of a specific cross section. Structural steel shapes, sizes, chemical composition, mechanical properties such as strengths, storage practices ...

7. Steel frame - Wikipedia

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   Steel frame. Rectangular steel frame, or "perimeter frame" of the Willis building (at right) contrasted against the diagrid frame at 30 St Mary Axe (at center), in London. Steel frame is a building technique with a " skeleton frame" of vertical steel columns and horizontal I-beams, constructed in a rectangular grid to support the floors, roof ...