Identifier: factoryindustria15newy (find matches)
Title: Factory and industrial management
Year: 1891 (1890s)
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Subjects: Engineering Factory management Industrial efficiency
Publisher: New York (etc.) McGraw-Hill (etc.)
Contributing Library: Engineering - University of Toronto
Digitizing Sponsor: University of Toronto

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s appalling to think what the streets of London, already in socongested a condition, would be like, were it permissible to erectbuildings fifteen or twenty stories high. The burning question ofNew York has long been to provide sufficient rapid transit to and fromthe business centre of the city ; and, while the solution is yet far off,the continual erection of high office-buildings is making matters worseby concentrating business offices within comparatively narrower limits. The excessive height of the American buildings has necessitatedthe use of the steel-skeleton construction, in order to economise thew^eight, and consequently the thickness of the walls in the lower stories,which otherwise would occupy valuable space, to say nothing of thecost of material and labour. The usual thickness of the walls, which,from the nature of the construction, serve only as a covering, is fromthirteen and a half to eighteen inches. In England the thickness of 233 234 ARCHITECTURAL STEEL CONSTRUCTION.
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AN AMKRICAN I YIK. STKKI, «■ RAM K OK TH K LAKNK.c ;IK I.lI I.I )l Mi, Illl SIUKC, IA., U.S.A. wall at theground-floor-level rarely has to exceed two feet three inches ;if, however, instead of being five or six stories, the buildings were tobe three or four times that height, the increase in thickness would have ARCHITECTURAL STEEL CONSTRUCTION. 235 to be enormous, and the steel skeleton framework would probably comeinto general use. ihe steel construction, therefore, has to adapt itself to the style ofbuilding i)revailing in the different countries. The essential differ-ence, broadly S;)eaking, is that, whereas in American construction eachstory is supported entirely by girders at the floor-level of that story,

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