The largest work at Camden might almost be the skeletal frame of a building, a building standing within the building.
Commenton watching a wrecking ball crashing, rhythmically, against the frame of a building and, after a watching it a while, involuntarily swaying with the motion of it.
Not far from his nursery, the wrecked frame of a building testified to the effects of a car bomb, but amid his trees Mr. Abbas was serene.
'But no person shall furnish or give away intoxicating liquor at an assemblage of persons gathered to erect a building or frame of a building, or to remove a building, or at a public gathering for amusement.
The shell and frame of a building is designed under the same national model building codes as any other type of structure.
Contractors, in turn, are unable to continue to erect the steel frame of a building when they cannot pour the concrete slabs for each floor as the building rises.
The aim of this paper is to provide a simple tool able to reproduce the effect of infills in the global (stiffness) and local response (effects on the frame) of a building under earthquake loads.
In the composite frame of a building structure in an earthquake-prone area, the shear connection between a concrete slab and a steel beam plays a very important role in distributing the load of the structure and preventing collapse.
"It's relevant to our business, but it goes back a thousand years, to the Scandinavian people," said John G. Kelly of the International Association of Bridge, Structural and Ornamental Ironworkers, the union whose members traditionally raise a flag, a fir tree or both when the steel frame of a building reaches its maximum height.
Should a portion of the skeletal remains of the tower that still stand in the ruins serve as a memorial, just as the frame of a building destroyed by the atomic blast was left as part of the Peace Memorial in Hiroshima?
