CA1156015A - Multi-storey building - Google Patents

Multi-storey building

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CA1156015A
CA1156015A CA000085986A CA85986A CA1156015A CA 1156015 A CA1156015 A CA 1156015A CA 000085986 A CA000085986 A CA 000085986A CA 85986 A CA85986 A CA 85986A CA 1156015 A CA1156015 A CA 1156015A
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William J.B. Ollis
Clive B. A. Long
Ezra Levin
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    • EFIXED CONSTRUCTIONS
    • E04BUILDING
    • E04BGENERAL BUILDING CONSTRUCTIONS; WALLS, e.g. PARTITIONS; ROOFS; FLOORS; CEILINGS; INSULATION OR OTHER PROTECTION OF BUILDINGS
    • E04B1/00Constructions in general; Structures which are not restricted either to walls, e.g. partitions, or floors or ceilings or roofs
    • E04B1/348Structures composed of units comprising at least considerable parts of two sides of a room, e.g. box-like or cell-like units closed or in skeleton form
    • E04B1/34807Elements integrated in a skeleton

Abstract

A B S T R A C T

The invention relates to a method for building a housing block in which a number of vertical posts are erected on foundations and horizontal-load-transferring members are assembled between the posts. The members com-prise rigid boxes constitu ing housing units, each box in a higher storey being supported only from the posts but not from the box below it. The boxes constitute the only horizontal-load-transferring members between the posts above the foundations. The invention thus differs from the prior art, which has always required either that upper housing units should be stacked on lower units or that the boxes fit individually into a steel framework including both vertical and horizontal members. Also disclosed is a multi-storey housing block constructed according to the above method.

Description

~ ~56015 Ihis inYention rel,ates to a houslng block, which expression covers primar:ily blocks of flats and maisonettes but is not to be constTued nar-rowly so as to exclude other blocks of living and working accommodation cven if not used pr:imarily as dwellings.
According to one aspect of the present invention, there is pro-vided a me-thod of building a housing block in which a number o:f vertical posts are erected on foundations and horizontal-load-t-ransferring members are assembled between -the posts, the members comprising rigid boxes consti-tuting housing units, each box in a higher storey being supported from the posts and not from the box below it, and the boxes constitute, the only horizontal-load-transferring members between the posts above the foundations.
Thus, each box which may consist of a number of rooms decorated and finished with plumbing and electrical fittings in a factory and delivered to site in that form~ for support from the structural vertical members~ and a higher storey box does not have to be carried on the storeys below it but only supported from the structural vertical members.
The structural vertical members can themselves be built up in sub-lengths so that the full height of the building is not achieved until some of the housing units are already supported from lower sub-lengths, and in this way access to .fastenings to the structural members is made easier and in particular a complete steel framework does not first have to be built before the housing units are :fitted.
Sub-length~ of ver-tical members about equal in height to the height o the box may be erected iln~ediately be:Eore the box is lifted up to be supported from them, or may be lifted up simultaneously with the box to 1~5~

which they are secured allcl in eitheI case the sub-lengths will be :~astened to lower sub-lengths o~ the vertical members.
I`hus a tower crane on the site can lift the housing units into position one after another and if these are supplied - possibly by lorry -in the finished form, the work on site can be accomplished very quickly.
Indeed once one block has been built a block beside it can have the housing units lifted into position by a lift acting from the finished block so that the tower crane does not havo to be kept on the site.
A multi-storey housing block consists of housing units in the form of rigid boxes, each of which boxes in a higher storey is not stacked on the box below it, but is secured to, and supported by, vertical struc-tural posts which transfer the weight of the box to foundations, the boxes acting to transfer horizontal loads between the vertical posts and give the block resistance against racking loads.
In general the boxes will not be structurally connected together, but only through the intermediary of the structural members, except possibly where horizontal steel work is necessary to support common staircases and access galleries.
Preferably the boxes transfer horizontal loads between the ver-tical members to give the block resistance against racking loads and the structural vertical member may have no other horizontal interconnections.
A box may be ~onsidered to act as a horiæontal box beann supported between the vertical members.
l'he arrangement has the advantage of good sound 1~5~015 insulation from one box to the next and there may be a space between boxes with or withou-t insulating material which spaces may include ~ire stops to reduce fire haæards.
5. The invention has particular advantages in the small time that is required on site since almost all the work can be done in a ~actory and -the work on site is very simple. Moreover there is a particular advantage where no horizontal level ~ite i~ available, because the 10. ~ertical structural members can be built up to an appropriate level for supporting the boxes. In this way a block can be built directly on the side of a hill.
Various methods of supporting the boxes from the vertical structural members are possible. ~here may be 15. a simple susPension fastening at the top of the box and a horizontal location at the bottom and in general the use of bonding material at the joints may be desirable to accommodate manufacturing tolerances and to allow some adjustment on site whilst also acting as good acoustic 20. insulation.
~ he invention may be carried into practice in various ways and one embodiment will be briefly described by way of example with reference -to -the a¢companying drawings, o~ which F:Lgure 1 i~ a general view oE a building in 25. course of cons-truction, Figure 2 i~ an exploded view showing details o~
construction, Figure 3 shows a detail of a method oE supporting uni-ts, and 30. Fi~lre 4 :is an elevation o~ one building embodying GFA/A~AG 4.

the invention.
The building is built up from vertical s-teel stanchions 1 and cells 3 in the form of rigid boxes, the height of each stanchion corresponding to the height o~
5. a storey in the ~inal building, and this being about equal to the height o-f a cell 3. This enables both the stanchions 1 and the cells 3 for one floor to be positioned before the frame -for the floor above is commenced.
Once the s-tanchions 1 are in position7 or be-~ore lO. they are lifted into position, completed cells 3 can be suspended from them by means o~ couplings which may be as described in more detail in Figure 3. ~ach cell ~ will be supported at its eight corners and the cell will be strengthened by flitch plate 4 at the cornersO Drilled 15. brackets 5 at the top o-~ each s-tanchion l are then ready to receive a bracket 5 at the foot of the next vertical section of stanchion.
Each cell is constructed with side walls having a ~ramework of substantial timbers fit-ted together in pairs ~O. with plywood flitch plates between them as lndicated generally at 11. ~teel elitch plates 4 can be substituted at points af local s-tress and those plates may be bolted -together as at 13 a-t the corners.
~hus the sides o e the cells act, as plate girders 25~ helping -to givo rigidity to -the oomple-te cons-tru~tion o e :erame and cells. The plate girders may include pl~ywood webs such as l~ :if -there ara ~a be no openings in a wall7 or may ~'orm an apen ~irder i~ window or door oponlngs 16 are required. rrhese girders s-tlfeen the boxes so -that 70. they can be suppor-ted at -the four corners only. I
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The top and bo-ttom ~;/alls of thc boxes or cells, and possibly also certain of -the side walls constitute stre~sed skins 18, for example of plywood, for the trans-mission of horizontal forces to the corners. Main 5. services can be led to the individual cells by means of vertical ducts shown at 20, carrled in the space be-tween ~rame members and cell walls and th~se ducts too can be prefabricated as un~.t~ e~ach equal in hei~ht -to one storey.
It will be appreciated that each cell can be 10. completely prefabricated in a factory after the manner of a caravan, and will be light and rigid to be capable of being lifted and placed in position by a crane with a single lift, and the crane could in fact use a component of the skeletal frame as a gantry.
15. In fact, individual stanchions 1 can be pre-assembled with the neighbouring cells to be lifted into position with them without one obstructing the other, and the arrangement shown enables the connections between frame members to be easily made at this time.
20~ For reducing the danger of fire being transmltted from cell to cell or from cell to frame, the cell walls may incorporate mineral wood, and fire stops 21 may be i~serted in tho SpaCQS and external cover pla-tes may be fitted around -the s-tanchlons to pre~ent -the pas~age of 25. flames in th~ ca~ities be~-tween cells. ~his proteotion could be supplemen-ted by wrapping -the stanchlons ~i-th a ~acket 30 of min~ral wool.
In any case, -the cells are preferably provided with non~combll~-tible lay~rs or linings 2~.
30. Furth~r protection can be provided by .t'ire curtains, G~A/~IAG 6.

1~L5~0~5 possi~ly on steel mesh inserted in the vertical cavities between adjacent cells. h fire curtain can have a steel mesh frcame with spi.kes at ei-ther side on which mineral ~rool blankets can be impaled.
5~ Spread of fire vertically is restricted by mineral ool mattresses 28 laid between cavitles between ceiling of lower box and floor of hi.gher box, and each rnattress may be carried across the gap between side-by-side cells to prevent -these cav.i-tlecs acting as flues.
lO. Sound insulation between cells is good because o-f the arrangement already described for mounting cells on the frame and because air-borne sound transmission is reduced by the compliant n~ture of the cells in conjunction with the wide air spaces and the insulation material 15. contained th~rein~
Figuro 3 shaws how a lower stanchion 1 with its upper bracket 5 can carry a cell 3 by virtue of an angle 31 secured to a -top corner of -the cell and havingr a hole 32 with clearance around a bolt 3~ on the bracket 5. A
20. sealing resin can fill the gap after mounting to give good sound insulation -from stanchion -to cell. Thi3 arrangement supports the weigh-t o-f -the cell and also provid~s location ln horlæontaL directions~
Tho next stanohion has a bracke-t 6 at its foot for 25. bol-tinc? to the brclcke-t 50 rrhis bracke-t 6 is in the form of a box havingr slots 34 -for depending -tongues 35 at the lower corner of t;he next cel~l 9 whereby -th~-t connec-tion g.ives horlæon-tal location~ but doe~ not-t~ke vertical loa~s.
~ain, spcace lo~-t for manufao-turin~r tolerances can be 30. ~illed with a plastics materi.al.

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~5~015 FLgUre 4 shows how some cells can have up to one quarter of their length as an overhanging cantilever 38 to give more scope for varie-ty in design. The top of such cant:ilever could bo a transparent or translucen-t 5. plate ~9, ~ t the right-hand side ln Fi~ure q. ls shown an a-rrangement o~ staircases 41 clnd access galleri.es 42 added on horizontal steel members 4~ extending between stanch.ions 1.
lO. Where two cells together form a maisonette 44, each may be provided with a part staircase 45 9 of which one can be fixed in its cell, while the other is swung into connection with it after the two cells have been positioned.
15. For building on quite steeply sloping ground 46 the lower cells could be omit-ted and stanchions bedded in-to foundations and built up until a cell can be suspended horizontally, so that the great expense of levelling may be avoided.

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Claims (14)

THE EMBODIMENTS OF THE INVENTION IN WHICH AN EXCLUSIVE
PROPERTY OR PRIVILEGE IS CLAIMED ARE DEFINED AS FOLLOWS:
1. A method of building a housing block in which a number of vertical posts are erected on foundations and horizontal-load-transferring members are assembled between the posts, the members comprising rigid boxes constituting housing units, each box in a higher storey being supported from the posts and not from the box below it, and the boxes constitute, the only horizontal-load-transferring members between the posts above the foundations.
2. A method as claimed in claim 1 in which sub-lengths for forming the vertical posts are built up in succession and the full height of the vertical posts is not achieved until some of the housing units are already supported from the lower sub-lengths.
3. A method as claimed in claim 2 in which sub-lengths of vertical posts are lifted simultaneously with housing units to which they are fixed.
4. A method as claimed in claim 1 in which complete housing units are transported to a site ready for lifting.
5. A multi-storey housing block consisting of housing units in the form of rigid boxes, each of which boxes in a higher storey is not stacked on the box below it, but is secured to, and supported by, vertical structural posts which transfer the weight of the box to foundations, the boxes acting to transfer horizontal loads between the vertical posts and give the block resistance against racking loads.
6. A block as claimed in claim 5 in which the boxes are structurally connected together only through the supports on the vertical structural members.
7. A block as claimed in claim 5 or claim 6 in which the boxes consti-tute the only horizontal-load-transferring members between the posts above the foundation.
8. A block as claimed in claim 5 or claim 6 in which the boxes are predominantly of wood and the posts include steel.
9. A block as claimed in claim 5 in which there is space between ad-jacent boxes.
10. A block as claimed in claim 5 including fire stops against the flow of flame or smoke in the spaces between boxes.
11. A block as claimed in claim 5 in which one box has a portion extend-ing as a cantilever horizontally beyond the vertical posts supporting it.
12. A block as claimed in claim 5 in which boxes are supported from vertical posts by suspension connections at the top of the boxes and connect-ions at the bottom of the boxes which only impart horizontal loads from verti-cal posts to boxes.
13. A block as claimed in claim 5 including a duct for any of electrical, drainage, gas, and exhaust services having connections to a number of boxes.
14. A block as claimed in claim 5 in which the vertical posts are sup-ported in ground which is not level horizontally.
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