The second part summarizes the problems relating to the local reinforced concrete framed building construction, including inadequacies of repair, quality control, material quality and isolation of buildings from the external effects.
For non-homogeneous receiver structures, such as thin-plate cavity constructions or lightweight framed constructions, the sheathing plates are typically fastened to the framing members using bolts, screws or spot-welded joints.
Barratt, which was once Britain's largest housebuilder, abandoned timber-framed construction after suffering some bad press in the early 1980s that led to sales halving.
They employed a radical framed tube structure to carry the load in their facades – thereby doing away with the need for columns inside, freeing up the interior for more office space (and requiring as little as half the material needed for conventional steel-framed construction).
Also the oak-framed construction, which in Shakespeare's time was simply an easy and humble way to put up a building, and which might sometimes be disguised to look like stone, but which now is striking for its smell and warmth, its irregularities and warps, for its closeness to nature.
Residential wood-framed construction failures account for the majority of economic losses following hurricanes.
Light gauge steel cassette sections offer an alternative form of load-bearing wall assembly for use in low-rise steel-framed construction.
Finally, a preliminary numerical prediction of the lateral load carrying capacity of LGM shear walls with these connections is conducted, in order to address the potential of LGM to be used as a structural material in bamboo-framed shear walls, as an alternative to conventional wood-framed construction.
