I`ve never seen a building made from polestyrene (? ) walls before. this has to be a first for me. How can buildings keep standing with cheap construction like that ?
Steel frame construction. To be more specific, almost all modern commercial buildings rely on the frame structure to keep it upright and intact. The exception is reinforced concrete construction. The exterior walls are just curtain walls with essentially no load bearing capacity and they keep the weather outside. In the past construction was often brick which had great compressive strength, but not much lateral or horizontal strength particularly as the mortar aged. Because of that they were extremely susceptible to earthquake damage. Wood beams were used to reinforce those masonry walls and later steel, but not to the extent you see in this building.
I`ve never seen a building made from polestyrene (? ) walls before. this has to be a first for me. How can buildings keep standing with cheap construction like that ?
Steel frame construction. To be more specific, almost all modern commercial buildings rely on the frame structure to keep it upright and intact. The exception is reinforced concrete construction. The exterior walls are just curtain walls with essentially no load bearing capacity and they keep the weather outside. In the past construction was often brick which had great compressive strength, but not much lateral or horizontal strength particularly as the mortar aged. Because of that they were extremely susceptible to earthquake damage. Wood beams were used to reinforce those masonry walls and later steel, but not to the extent you see in this building.
And what about the fire risk? In the light of Grenfell.....in that instance it was just cladding, here we're talking entire walls!