The TAC building

The TAC building is a very typical building. It uses prefabricated concrete panels for most walls, it uses bondek to support a suspended slab on most floors. These floors are separated by large concrete columns. If you are able to get close enough you can see the individual attachment of services to the ceilings. I shouldn't have left my camera in Bairnsdale, the photographs where taking in conjunction with Richard Israel.

All in the Mix

This article talks about a new Selfridges building in Birmingham. Its unique curved shape meant that the prefabricated concrete panels would not be a viable choice, instead opting for spray in situ concrete casting to cover the steel reinforcement. This building's concrete also has blue paint added to the mixture to enhance visual effect of the concrete discs .


























This was taken from"Concrete for the Construction Industry, Vol 39, Num 2 Febuary 2005" page 21-22

Portal Steel Construction Section

Officeworks Geelong
Detail

This photograph shows the joining plate of the rafter and its supporting steel members. This shows the welded style of joining. Also this shows the seemingly light weight steel members positioned closely to the wall.

Officeworks Geelong
Roofing aspect

This photograph depicts the rafters and the supporting steel structure approaching the apex of the building. towards the apex, the frame work appears to become larger and stronger when compared to the frame work adjacent the walls.
this photo shows the use of plates to allow easier connection between steel members.

Officeworks Geelong
50 Malop Street, Geelong, VIC 3220
(Builder currently unkown)

The building is a typical steel construction, a steel frame work visible from the interior and concealed from the exterior by the facade.

Sustainable Concrete

This article talks about the, surprise, sustainability of concrete. It concerns itself with the fact that concrete can make a big contribution to long term sustainability of the built environment.( Please note this is a British based Journal, and views may differ compared to Australian opinions) . This journal argues that it is a myth that to produce a tone of concrete will produce a tone of CO² (carbon dioxide). they state that it will produce, depending on the particular mix of concrete used, 47- 67 Kg of CO² per tone of concrete, which is substantially different., but isn't the operational emissions of CO² that make concrete unsustainable?.


This is an extract from "Concrete for the Construction Industry, Vol 41, Num 11,December 2007/January 2008" page 42-43