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Factory and office intersection drawing

Wall intersection with box gutter

Wall intersection drawing

Parapet wall drawing

Atex steel factory fabrication

Cleats just after inhouse welding

Pile drill

This image is of the under construction TAC headquarters in Geelong, this is a tool that drills up to 20m deep and while the drill is being withdrawn from the ground it pumps concrete in to the hole.

Roofing in idustrial construction

Poster in process

Elevation

During research for the major Assigment I visited Atex Steel and was lucky enough to be shown around the office and factory and shown the processes involved in turning building plans in to the sized and fabricated construction members. The following drawings were provided to me by staff at Atex steel with some being those directly handed to them from the engineers and some being the shop drawing the in house draftsmen have made to aid in the fabrication process.

Typical elevation of factory construction

Load bearing concrete panel with steel rafter connection

Typical fly bracing for long span construction

Box gutter details

Box gutter engineers drawing

Shop drawing of bolt plate

Shop drawing of beam

Shop drawing of beam

3D CAD image from Atex steel

Seperation joint in conrete slab and column footing

The following Photos are from a site visit to the soon to be Spotlight and Anaconda new premises. It is load bearing precast concrete construction, and is situated on the corner of settlement road and breakwater road in Belmont, the Builder for the project is LYONS Construction which specialses in industrial construction. This photo show the column of stanchioun concreted in with a seperation from the slab flooring, this is achieved by use of a seperation joint which is to allow the slab to expand with out putting pressure onto the column or its pad footing.

D.p.c and steel reo befor a concrete pour

Corner detail in Pre cast Concrete structure

This up close corner detail shows the cast in steel plate used to support the beams

Connection between load bearing concrete wall and steel beam

This image also shows the box gutter above the rafter

Entrance to concrete pre-cast structure

Concrete panel connection above roller door entrance

This image shows the strong steel connections between 2 concrete panel members supporting a panel over large entrance to the structure

Steel framed office within Steel and Concrete composite costruction

Steel Universial Beam

This shows fly bracing connected to the UB at also shows purlins with sarking which is still work in progress in the photo shown

Concrete Pre-cast building with steel frame

This photo shows the steel frame with support colums at around every 15m to help span the whole building

Corner detail in Concrete pre-cast , Steel framed building

This photo shows the connections between the pre-cast concrete panels, the box gutter, bracing, sarking and Z section purlins

Rigid connetion in SHS column

Portal Frame Section 2

This is a section of a portal frame building looking from the other direction

Portal Frame construction

The Arena

This is a Portal frame construction in North Geelong, it is used for Basketball and other indoor sports so a wide span construction is crucial to facilitate this

Corner feature in Portal frame

The Arena North Geelong

Greater London Authority Headquarters

This is the HQ for the mayor of London and 500 staff, it is situated right on the south bank of the river Thames. The design is a modified sphere using 2100 tons of steel for the structural frame and 1950 tons for reinforcement. The Architect is Foster and Partners. This modern building has green credentials using triple glazed glass, and water from the water table below for cooling the building and later on for flushing toilets.