No_6_1956 — Page 55

MANSON HOUSE

INTERESTING DETAILS

OF STEEL FRAMING

Architects:

HARRIMAN REALTY CO. LTD.

KAWLING'

土機

NATHAN

ROAD

Recent view of construction work on Manson House.

The building, on an almost square leries which will be the approaches to site comprising 10,410 sq.ft., will be the entrances of the apartments, and, 15-storey high. The first five floors secondly, it will act as a flue to en- will be for commercial use restau- sure good cross ventilation for these rants, shops and offices; while the 6th flats. to 15th floors will contain flats vary- ing in size from single room bachelor is now discernible when one

The general shape of Manson House apartments to 5-room family flats.

along Nathan Road. Steel work is

passes

steel

HUMPHREYS

AVENUE

205

K. I. L

K. I.

CAMERON

ROAD

the first instance in which the welding of such gusset plates has been done outside their factory, but local

ex-

In this upper portion of the build- completed up to the 14th storey and perience has shown that the process ing there will be a central open space a few more weeks will see the which will serve two purposes. First, it will provide light to the access gal-

2" CONCRETE COVER

GUSSET PLATES

+

WELDING

BOX STANCHION

-WELDING

TYPICAL SECTION OF

GUSSET PLATES

2′′ CONCRETE COVER

STANCHION

BOX

2 FT.

frame completed.

is highly satisfactory and Dorman's representative, who spent some months. in the Colony supervising this aspect A few comments on the steel frame of the work, intimated that the stand- may be of interest.

The main ver- ard of local workmanship was of a tical supports are stanchions of the very high order a discovery which box steel variety, being merely four caused more surprise to them than steel plates welded at the corners to the local building fraternity. with internal diaphragms at intervals. This type of construction is extremely the site since all the stanchions had This welding could not be done on

economical in steel, and effects con- to be laid flat and all four sides of siderable saving in the amount of concrete which is required as protec- For this reason it was necessary to the stanchions worked upon in turn.

tion to the steel.

obtain accommodation remote from For the lower floors the lengths of the site in order to carry out this these stanchions correspond to the work, resulting in additional tran- height of the floor, but for the upper sportation costs and double handling. floors they came in lengths equal to It was found, however, that the sav- three floors, Connections at each ing in the overall cost of the frame floor level are made by means of more than offset this aspect, and gusset plates. Due to damage in adoption of this method is amply jus- evitably experienced during shipment, tified since the saving in weight of however, these gusset plates were ob- steel is estimated at 35-40%, liged to be fixed by welding here in the reduction in the concrete the Colony. We have been informed required could be as much as 50% by Messrs. Dorman Long (Bridge & when compared with normal H-Sec- Engineering) Co., Ltd. that this is tions.

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