W06 –STUDIO REPORT Multi-storey considerations
Electrical
• Safety • Scaffolding; Temporary structure which allows a platform for builders to work on and contains objects preventing workers or debris from falling. • Netting; restrains falling objects. • Cross bracing; stabilises scaffolding.
• Foil board insulation sheets, easy to cut and offer excellent acoustic insulation. • Wires are installed through these pannels.
Subsystem, basement & flooring • Supported by reinforced concrete columns on pad footing. • Soldier piles; structural columns that have been excavated from the existing rock and then sprayed with compressed concrete. • Concrete slab floors • Cast in situ • Require ‘acrow’ props to stabilise concrete whilst wet and drying.
Apartments 3 storeys
Frame and walls
Plumbing • Sewage collected from appartments and water from the air coditionig duct are collected in pipes. • Pipes are placed at an inclination to control one-way flows
Mechanical systems
Site 1 Yarraville
• Steel studs; vertical support members arranged in rows. Used for both support and as a means of setting up walls by attaching plasterboard. • Gang-nail planks are used as connectors for timber elements.
Structural systems
Roof
Enclosure system
• Timber joists; horizontal member used for the support of the roof. • Battens; sit above ceiling joists and provide a base to which the roof is fixed. • Cross bracing; prevents lateral collapse of rood members. • Rooftop is reinforced concrete, there is a slight inclination towards the center where water is drained.
3 houses located on site. Subsystem & flooring Double storey town house buildings
• Large concrete slab floor for the foundation. • Cast in situ, large amount of concrete reaquires some movement joints.
Plumbing • PVC pipes installed for sewage and storm water, these extend down through the concrete slab and foundations.
Mechanical systems
Site 2 Altona
Structural system
Frame and walls Enclosure system
Brick veneer walls • Single layer of brick, most likely to be supported by some form of stud frame.
• Concrete block walls, the blocks are hollow to make them lighter and allow reinforcements through them. • Reinforcements are steel re-bars, these run down the holes in the blocks to the foundations.