Hi,
As I work in the factory I pretty familiar with the American structural design, but less with the American construction methods. You probably see it everyday, but don’t understand how magnificent it is. So let me tell you 🙂
Take Care
Gad
A simple supported bridge over a creek in Road number 1
The Golden Gate bridge in San Fransisco. It has a chapter of National Geographic book I had called Wonders of Engineering
A method of construction I was not familiar with, till the friend in Florida told me about – you cast the concrete walls on the ground around the building and lift it up. The inner space will be covered by light steel roof on steel columns.
Concrete cast on steel deck on composite steel beams, all covered with fireproofing material (sounds like a nice dish for dinner, isn’t it? 😉) in Children Museum in San Jose In Israel we don’t use the cement material, just paint it.
High grid electricity lines with small trusses instead of beams in Bair Island
A building made part from mixed steel and wood in one of California endless shopping centers. I am not used to have the skeleton from wood at all.
10m high Hollow concrete masonry walls with almost no concrete beams or columns, I wonder how the code allows it
5 levels of bridges on the interchange (as the picture was taken one level above ground). Very complicated not only to design, but also to design the construction and go build.
Works in the stream of the ricer in Blue spring
Steel road bridges. Most the bridges here, and almost all those in Israel are made of concrete. This is why looking on the construction of those is new for me.
Wood construction in Israel is very rare but very common in American construction practices. It is nice to see how it can be done easily for houses roof and shades (in Israel even for those we use concrete)
A nice steel grid roof in Miami International Airport