FRAMING

FRAMING

                Key words:         Foundation
                                           Reinforcing Steel
                                           Concrete
                                           Bracing

Wednesday 23, 2011.
                                  We start the day off with FRAMING! Considerring what happened to Christchurch, we were given the the task to come up with lagit ways for Cantebrians to strengthen thier walls to stand up to earthquakes. In the photo above you see a simple frame, we were given a similar picture and were told to add things that could strengthen this frame to widstand an earthquake. After an hour of brainstorming and talking the boys were able to come up with some good ideas and lagit anwers to the problem. We had all sorts of ideas from nog's to sheet bracing and a 45 angle bracing. After adding all the extra bits and pieces to the given drawing, we were able to come up with a good strong frame.




On Monday 28, we learnt more about framing later on the day. We got showen another way of framing. we were showen a stronger frame witch required more wood to be built. There were bottom plate, top plate, stud, under stud, jack stud, packers, lintel, sil trimer, rafter, and jack rafter. Something similar to the photo you see in the bottom.