MODULE # 05: STRUCTURAL ASSEMBLIES

Learning Outcomes

"By the end of the module, Learners will be able to:  

• Identify required components for their assigned assembly
• State the required estimated sizes for components
• Draw a series of sketches showing your  framing diagram design decisions

Contents

1. Light Gauge Steel Structure

2. Pre-Cast Concrete Structure

3. Foundations

1.  Light Gauge Steel Framing Shown above is the Sunnybrook hospital as taken from the BMP-group.com  website

Referring to  "the architects studio companion" for  approximate sizing determine the following:

• Recommend Exterior wall stud sizes

• suggest floor systems assembly options

• Sloped roof framing options (trusses)

• flat roof framing options

or refer to  Bailey Metal Products website  for more information and details

2.   Site Cast Concrete

Referring to  "the architects studio companion" for  approximate sizing determine the following:

recommended Slab thickness

column sizes and spacing

drop panels or capitals or perimeter beams  (are they necessary?)

3.   Precast Concrete

Place columns from given floor plans onto sketch framing diagram.

Assume grid spacing.

Determine the following:

• slab span direction

• slab thickness

• slab width

• approximate column an beam sizes

• method of cantilever at the floating wall

refer to the Coreslab Ontario Inc. website for further information.

and the Canadian Pre-cast Concrete Institute at www.cpci.ca

Also refer to page 133 in "the architects studio companion" for approximate sizing.

4.   Engineered wood- Glulam

Above: Galleria Italia by Frank O. Gehry

Visit the Canadian Wood Council for more information for their glulam.pdf click here

5.   Engineered Wood investigate PSL, LVL, LSL, TJI's

Visit the Canadian Wood Council for more information

Foundation Options

1. Slab on grade Lift the foundation walls, backfill below and pour a slab on grade http://www.cmhc-schl.gc.ca/publications/en/rh-pr/tech/2000-127E.html	2. Basement Contains space below  and a framed first floor lifted above grade to gain natural light from windows at grade	3. Posts, Piles, Piers If the slope falls away, consider lifting the main floor up by setting the box onto posts Photo above by Derrick Ditchburn in Nova Scotia

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