Architect and engineer . take the steel sash. Method of Erection The erection of these steel wall units wasaccomplished by men working in pairs. Aunit was held in place by bolting the bottomchps down to the base plates on thefoundation. Another unit was then simi-larly placed beside the first, and the sidemembers of the units were joined togetherwith a steel batten clamp. As a wall wasraised and aligned, an electric welder fol-lowed along and permanently welded thesteel batten clamps and angle clamps bvwhich the units had been connected. Helikewise welded all bolted connections tomake a perman
Architect and engineer . take the steel sash. Method of Erection The erection of these steel wall units wasaccomplished by men working in pairs. Aunit was held in place by bolting the bottomchps down to the base plates on thefoundation. Another unit was then simi-larly placed beside the first, and the sidemembers of the units were joined togetherwith a steel batten clamp. As a wall wasraised and aligned, an electric welder fol-lowed along and permanently welded thesteel batten clamps and angle clamps bvwhich the units had been connected. Helikewise welded all bolted connections tomake a permanent tie. Second story steel was erected in muchthe same manner as the first floor floor joists were laid across the floorareas ia most cases spanning from wall towall. One heavy structural steel I ^ runs through a section of the house and issupported on steel H columns from thefoundations. This beam picks up a sec-tion of the steel floor framing and steeljoists are tied to the beam by clips STEEL FRAME HOUSE—Tile shingles stacked on roofready for laying. When the second story sub floor hadbeen laid the wall units were raised by asmall hand hoist and set in place aroundthe walls. While a definite attempt was
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