Architect and engineer . r this reason, anything that can be done to speed up the erection of theframe of a building will be found to be economical. This was found to be the case in the erection of a five-story steelframe office building at Santa Rosa. Here the time of erection wasshortened by using columns sixty feet long. The columns were madestiong enough to carry the load above the first floor and erected as oneunit. The first-story columns had to be of considerable heavier section,but from the second floor to the roof, the column was erected in one piece. It was found that the saving in s
Architect and engineer . r this reason, anything that can be done to speed up the erection of theframe of a building will be found to be economical. This was found to be the case in the erection of a five-story steelframe office building at Santa Rosa. Here the time of erection wasshortened by using columns sixty feet long. The columns were madestiong enough to carry the load above the first floor and erected as oneunit. The first-story columns had to be of considerable heavier section,but from the second floor to the roof, the column was erected in one piece. It was found that the saving in splice plates and rivets and the shopwork saved by the elimination of the splices more than made up for theextra material required to give sufficient area at the lower end of ihecolumn. Another item of delay eliminated was the necessity for repeatedraising of the derricks as is the ordinary procedure when erecting twostories at a time. It was unnecessary also to plank entire bays forriveting. 64 THE ARCHITECT AND ENGINEER. ARCADE. BUILDING FOR THEO. H. DAVIES & HONOLULU. T. CHULSTJAK MULLGARDT, ARCHITECT THE ARCHITIXT AND ENGINEER 65 Building for Theo. H. Davies & Co., Honolulu, T. H. By IRVING F. MORROW* HONOLULU may consider itself favored in tiie possession of aliuilding of genuine importance. As far back as December, 1917,Tlie Architect and Engineer printed a series of striking drawingsby Mr. Louis Christian Muligardt, Architect, showing various aspects ofa proposed Commei-cial Center for the island city. The first of thesebuildings to be undertaken (in fact, the only one undertaken to date)was the building for Messrs. Theo. H. Davies & Co., Ltd. A selection ofworking drawings of this building, as well as photographs of a one-quarter inch scale plaster model, was presented in The Architect and En-gineer of March, 1920, along with a brief account of some of the consid-erations which had influenced the Iniildings conception and working structure now
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