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2. Steel building - Wikipedia

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   Steel building. A steel building is a metal structure fabricated with steel for the internal support and for exterior cladding, as opposed to steel framed buildings which generally use other materials for floors, walls, and external envelope. Steel buildings are used for a variety of purposes including storage, work spaces and living accommodation.

3. Pre-engineered building - Wikipedia

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   Pre-engineered building. In structural engineering, a pre-engineered building (PEB) is designed by a PEB supplier or PEB manufacturer with a single design to be fabricated using various materials and methods to satisfy a wide range of structural and aesthetic design requirements. This is contrasted with a building built to a design that was ...

4. Steel frame - Wikipedia

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   Steel frame. Rectangular steel frame, or "perimeter frame" of the Willis building (at right) contrasted against the diagrid frame at 30 St Mary Axe (at center), in London. Steel frame is a building technique with a " skeleton frame" of vertical steel columns and horizontal I-beams, constructed in a rectangular grid to support the floors, roof ...

5. Metal Building Manufacturers Association - Wikipedia

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   The Metal Building Manufacturers Association, commonly known as the MBMA, was founded in 1956 by a group of companies that designed, manufactured, and marketed metal buildings. The first group of 13 metal building systems companies came together under the leadership of Wilbur B. Larkin in order to work together to promote metal building systems ...

6. Architectural metals - Wikipedia

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   Architectural metals. Metals used for architectural purposes include lead, for water pipes, roofing, and windows; tin, formed into tinplate; zinc, copper and aluminium, in a range of applications including roofing and decoration; and iron, which has structural and other uses in the form of cast iron or wrought iron, or made into steel.

7. List of tallest freestanding steel structures - Wikipedia

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   Tallest building in the world 1972–1974. 4 Pompano Platform: 477 1,565 1994 Rigid Steel Jacket (truss tower) Oil Rig United States Gulf of Mexico: 5 John Hancock Center: 457.2 1,500 1969 Skyscraper Office, residential, FM/TV-broadcasting United States Chicago