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It appears that the panels for this building will be load bearing, whereby the rafter will be bolted into the actual panel spaning across to the grey composite columns.
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These three panels are not yet tied into the main structure, it is at this stage where stability of the erected panels is critical and as such they must be temporailty braced often using ferrules. The main brace will be bolted into the panel and again into the concrete slab or pier at an acute angle on the ground.
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The braces are evenly spaced to ensure uniformity in load bearing, they are usually only designed to take wind loads.
2 comments:
Do you have an estimate on how high the structure is?
It appears it will be as high as the panels shown. Being two storey high i would estimate about 7-8 metres
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