Height is an important consideration when building a great room. Large rooms with low ceilings ... A 10-foot ceiling will ...

The average height of tall ... allowing the ironworkers room to place reinforcement. Both owners and building occupants appreciate the advantages of concrete construction. If this was a structural ...

Collette said building upwards would make room for larger-scale ... to some of the building heights in the area, it limits us to our floor-to-floor, making construction costs kind of increase ...

Although masonry unit brick and block construction is a prominent collapse risk, the generally accepted horizontal collapse zone (CZ) is considered at 1.5 times the building’s height.