Rescue / Home Office, Scottish Home Department.

  • Great Britain. Home Office.
Date:
1960
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Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: Rescue / Home Office, Scottish Home Department. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    are formed of reinforced concrete on the site as they occur in the build- ing as it rises. The mass of reinforcing rods is carefully set out with each bar hooked and wired in position, to form the raft or base of the building and partly up the walls and piers or columns. The timber or metal form-work for the walls is then fixed in position, the steel reinforcement placed and the concrete poured over and worked around the bars. When the concrete is set, the form-work is removed and the next stage pro- ceeds, and so on upwards to the top of the roof, the floors being placed as the walls rise. The roof is constructed in the same manner as the rest of the building, and when the building is completed all the various elements are intimately linked together. 8.57 Reinforced buildings of this type may have non-load bearing panel walls similar to steel-framed buildings, or the walls may be designed to share the loads. In either case the building will be very strong and be capable of withstanding considerable blast or damage without danger of the whole building collapsing. Such buildings are also very resistant to fire.