DESIGN OF BUILDINGS

Jan Wikström

M.Sc. (Struct. Eng.)

EUR ING

Ramböll Sverige AB
 Items to consider
• Formation (volume, • Fire protection
facade) of the building • Acoustics
• Lay-out, Architectural • Energy
design • Production methods
• Application of the building • Reconstruction
• Loads, Capacity, Stability • Additional building
• Foundation extension
• Choice of material
 Construction of Halls
• Roof as rigid panel or construction with
trusses
• Windbracing in walls with trusses

• Building as a ”box” – problems with

extension

• Building as a ”tube” – extension OK

 Industry building
• Pitched concrete beams
• Concrete columns
• Roof: light weight concrete
• Pad foundation 2400x2400
• Fire protection
Storage for clothes
 Conference Hall

• Roof and walls from rigid panels of wood

 Storage building for soda and
borax

• One volume consisting of a floor, four

walls and a roof.
 Office building

• Stabilized in three lines with vertical

trusses

• Interior stabilization changed to a five

store frame
 Office building

• Stabilized in five lines with vertical trusses

and frames

• Stabilization over the second floor with

columns as cantilevers
 Office building

• 24-storey building

• Stabilization with a fixed end ”column”

 Distribution of horizontal loads

The horizontal loads are distributed to

respective lateral rigidity and location of
the stabilizing unit
 Department store H&M
• A rigid panel/plate of prefabicated hollow
core elements above the existing building.

• Interior line of 11 fixed end columns. The

slab forms a ”table”.

• New volume with roof and walls as rigid

panels
 The new Municipal library of
Halmstad

• Two huge slabs of cast in situ concrete

stabilized with three ”columns”
 Residential building
• Six-storey building, 19 000 m2

• Cast in-situ concrete with floor plates

• Stabilization with slabs and interior walls

 Library and school building

• A rather big volume of the building

• Few walls for the stabilization

 Example of modern computer program for
design
TEKLA (X-steel)
• Construct framework in TEKLA
• Define loads
• Perform design
• Element drawings for production
• General drawings