Transactions . Pig. L. — Ferro-concrete Granary. T\ lie, ai Newcastle, the Co-operative Wholesale Society, Limited,has adopted Ihc same method of construction for the execution 62 FERR0-C0XCRETK WORK AT DUNSTON-UPON-TYNE. of other interesting examples of architectural and engineeringwork in the district. The most important of these buildings is erected at Dunston,and measures 155 feet in length, 110 feet in width, and 94 feetin height to the uttermost level. This structure (fig. 1) com-prises a granary divided into fifty-six bins or silos for the stor-age of grain, and a grain-cleaning house s
Transactions . Pig. L. — Ferro-concrete Granary. T\ lie, ai Newcastle, the Co-operative Wholesale Society, Limited,has adopted Ihc same method of construction for the execution 62 FERR0-C0XCRETK WORK AT DUNSTON-UPON-TYNE. of other interesting examples of architectural and engineeringwork in the district. The most important of these buildings is erected at Dunston,and measures 155 feet in length, 110 feet in width, and 94 feetin height to the uttermost level. This structure (fig. 1) com-prises a granary divided into fifty-six bins or silos for the stor-age of grain, and a grain-cleaning house surmounted by a towercontaining a. tank for water-sprinkling apparatus, while themain roof of the cleaning-house forms a water-storage lank, tfeet deep. The building stands upon a continuous foundation-slab of ferro-concrete, connecting the heads of numerous piles. Flo. 2.—Discharge-outlets of Hoppkks. driven deep into the mud, which extends downward for the depthof about (SO feet. Each of the piles carries part of the load, theremaining part of the total load being transmitted to the surfaceof the ground by the general foundation-slab. This system offoundation work has been employed with great success in dealingwith unstable soils, and it has proved very satisfactory at Dun-ston under the enormous weight of the building and its of the silos in the granary department measures 43 feetin height by 14 feet square, and has a storage-capacity of more than000 quarters of grain, the entire series providing a total capacityof 35,000 quarters. Each silo is carried on ferro-concrete beamsand columns beneath the partition-walls (fig. 2), an arrangement FERRO-CONCRETE WORK AT DTTNSTON-TJPON-TYNE. 63 which results in much economy of space and affords ample spacefor the conveyor-hands by which the grain is transported fromthe discharge-outlets
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