1st Edition

Skyscrapers and High Rises

By Shana Priwer, Cynthia Phillips Copyright 2009
    112 Pages
    by Routledge

    112 Pages
    by Routledge

    This work includes a brief history of skyscrapers as well as chapters on elevators and communications, facades and facing, mechanical and electrical systems, forces of nature, and much more.

    About Frameworks; Chapter One: A Brief History of Skyscrapers; Chapter Two: Structural Steel; Chapter Three: Elevators and Communications; Chapter Four: Facades and Facing; Chapter Five: Mechanical and Electrical Systems; Chapter Six: Forces of Nature; Chapter Seven: Skyscraper Demolitions and Disasters.

    Biography

    Authored by Priwer, Shana; Phillips, Cynthia