Record High Rise, Record Low Steel
by Virginia Fairweather, Editor;Serial Information: Civil Engineering—ASCE, 1986, Vol. 56, Issue 8, Pg. 42-45
Document Type: Feature article
Abstract:
The Bank of China, under construction in Hong Kong, will be the world's fifth tallest building. In spite of the extraordinary codes for that city�high winds, and high live loads�the structure will use about half the steel typically required for a building of its height. The key was simplified steel connections for the cross-braced steel truss system. Members are double panels of steel stiffened and infilled with concrete. Gravity loads are gradually transferred to steel-reinforced concrete corner columns which act as shear transfer systems. This eliminates complicated three-dimensional steel connection, difficult to execute, and therefore costly. Truss members do not actually join, but sit in the column; the centroid of the truss is allowed to wander within the column within the structure. Structural engineer is Leslie Robertson; architect is I. M. Pei.
Subject Headings: Steel | Trusses | Gravity loads | Steel structures | Steel construction | Steel columns | Live loads
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