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Platform-Framed Housing Construction

2015  |  35min

Turn to the third major technique for building a house: platform-framed construction, which is a flexible arrangement of lightweight modular floor platforms, wall panels, and roof trusses. This efficient approach has been widely used in the U.S. for over a century.

 


From Wood to Steel: Properties of Materials

2011  |  31min

Materials profoundly influence the form, function, and structure of great buildings, bridges, and towers. Using steel (which is superior in terms of strength, ductility, and stiffness) as a benchmark, compare the structural properties of wood, masonry, concrete, and iron: and see them at work in thousands of years' worth of structures.

 


The Rise of Iron- and Steel-Framed Buildings

2011  |  32min

How did iron and steel revolutionize building design? Find out in this trip back to late 18th- and early 19th-century Europe and America, where iron-framed structures: such as sheds at England's Chatham Dockyard, New York City's Equitable Life Insurance Building, and Chicago's First Leiter Building: would set the stage for modern skyscrapers.

 


Building Up: Columns and Buckling

2011  |  32min

One of the most potent human aspirations supported by engineering is to build up. Learn how this has been done from antiquity to the present with columns: structural members that carry load primarily in compression. You'll also learn about buckling: the often catastrophic stability failure that occurs in columns with certain geometric characteristics.

 


Building Across: Beams and Bending

2011  |  31min

Materials profoundly influence the form, function, and structure of great buildings, bridges, and towers. Using steel (which is superior in terms of strength, ductility, and stiffness) as a benchmark, compare the structural properties of wood, masonry, concrete, and iron: and see them at work in thousands of years' worth of structures.

 


Trusses: The Power of the Triangle

2011  |  32min

Trusses, the subject of this fascinating episode, are rigid frameworks composed of structural members connected at joints and arranged into networks of triangles. Learn how they work to stabilize and support a range of structural wonders, including the Brooklyn Bridge and: most famously: the Eiffel Tower.

 


Renovating a Home

2009  |  30min

The renovation of a home is a unique and complex design and construction project. This video provides an overview of the steps taken and the people involved in the renovation of an existing home. Chapters include: Design & concept, excavation, concreting, block laying, interior demolition & construction, rendered walls, tiling, timber floor laying, door hanging, painting, kitchen installation and the final evaluation of the completed renovation.

 


Vast Roof Systems of Iron and Steel

2011  |  32min

The need for roofs spanning large enclosed spaces led to a startling number of new structural systems in the last 200 years. Look closer at long-span structural configurations in places such as the Houston Astrodome, the Berlin Hauptbahnhof, and even the Hartford Civic Center (the collapse of which offers a lesson in the risks of innovation).

 


Loads and Structural Systems

2011  |  31min

Structures are heavily influenced by the loads they're designed to carry. First, take a closer look at the most important loads structures must resist, including traffic loads and earthquake loads. Then, using the historic iron building at Watervliet Arsenal in New York, analyze how loads are actually transmitted through structural systems along load paths.

 


Internal Forces, Stress, and Strength

2011  |  31min

Use the Simple Tension Test (pulling on a structural element until it reaches the breaking point) as a gateway to understanding the concepts of internal force, stress, and strength. Then, see these concepts at work in structures such as the Golden Gate Bridge and Athens' Olympic Velodrome.