Structural design of Husam Quresh building
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2020
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Amr Abed
Aws Radwan
Qais Ghannam
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Due to increase in the population growth, the land prices and the need of Commercial and residential building multi-storey building are used to mitigation of Urban sprawl effects.
In the project a reinforced concrete multi-storey building designed which consists of ten floors in Rafedia-Nablus. It has an area of equal 700 m2. It is a commercial building which has many utilizations like offices, garages, shops, Stores and Wedding Hall.
In the project the following objectives were achieved: designing an appropriate system to the structure elements, designing the structure for seismic load, taken into consideration the most economical system and build up a structural model on ETAPS program.
In this project the following steps were followed. First: architectural drawings and details on it were read and understood. Second: needed data and ACI codes were collected according to the uses of each storey to compute a correct load that was designed. Finally: preliminary design was calculated according to codes and then the model in ETAPS was built up.