"This is a soft touch," Hill said, pointing to a load-bearing column easily accessible in the middle of the space.
Although a major load-bearing column was knocked out when the huge gash was torn in its northern face, 130 Liberty, owned by Deutsche Bank, had been judged structurally sound by engineers.
Though it looks like a load-bearing column, it hides the stairs and the guts of the house (including pipes, a powder room, closet and pantry on the first floor and another closet and audiovisual equipment upstairs).
During its inspection of the seven-story building on Thursday, the Buildings Department "found that a load-bearing column on the ground floor had collapsed, structurally compromising the building," said Tony Sclafani, the associate commissioner for communications and public affairs.
This indicated that after a load-bearing column is removed, the beams that were connected to this column must transfer the load previously borne by the column and bridge over the damaged area.
The tiles also cover the squarish load-bearing columns.
More and more people, machines and fabric bales were crammed inside until the load-bearing columns cracked apart.
Because there were so many load-bearing columns around the perimeter of each building, the engineers could completely eliminate all columns within the office space.
The interiors are full of heavy, load-bearing columns and walls, and, as you move toward the center of these buildings, the more cryptlike they feel.
Additional load-bearing columns were built from stones collected on the property, and some of the first floor's built-in furniture — a bar cabinet and several bookcases — were carved from loose planks found inside the barn during its renovation.
This paper investigates the performance of steel frames with partially restrained connections fabricated from bolted T-stubs following damage to load-bearing columns.
