Height Engineer

_A beam is a bar-type material that goes horizontal while another material called a column goes vertical to hold the skyscraper together. Beams are made of steel. Steel is an appropriate material for beams because it is very strong and it will be able to hold the building up very well.

_Beams come straight and crossed. The shapes will help the building depending on the height and shape of it.

_The Sears Tower in Chicago is made of a steel frame with a bronze-tinted glass curtain wall. It holds up so good because of its steel frame. It’s also the fourth tallest skyscraper in the world. The Shun Hing Square in China is made of all steel. It holds up good because its made of very strong steel. It’s the tallest “steel” building in china. The John Hancock Center in Chicago is made of steel columns and crossed bars. It holds up good because it has bars that cross like an “X”. It contains the highest residents in the world. The New York Times Tower in New York is Made of steel. It has a large internal garden in the lobby. Hong Kong New World Tower is Made of steel. It's 913 feet tall.

_Interviewed-Roy Shapmire.

Manila folders are good to build with for the project your working on because they are stronger than regular paper. Also, when you put them together they become stronger. Skyscrapers support themselves with they're foundations and the way their structures support them. To make the structure stronger you can put multiple pieces together and/or you can corrugate the walls of it. The main shapes used in constructing a building are triangles and pyramids. Materials we use are steel beams and concrete. Skyscrapers over 100 feet are sometimes hard to design and keep in balance because you need more workers and to take more time to build it. It takes a bunch of different people to build a skyscraper, depending on the type of building. You should use a lot of triangular shapes because since they have three sides they hold up better. Have small, compact shapes like pyramids and cylinders in the inside, with walls supporting it on the outside. To make them stronger, use corrugation and compress it together.

Our design was tall enough, it was about 11 1/2 inches and it had to be 9 inches. It only held 180 pounds, but it had to hold at least 45 pounds. Some benefits of our design were the tubes on the inside of the box shaped figure, because usually cylinders are strong shapes. Some weaknesses were that it wasn't compact enough, so it didn't stay up that long because there was too much space on the inside. To make our design better we could of make it have a smaller circumference and made the inside more compact using small cylinder and triangular shapes put together to fit on the inside.

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_Interveiw-Roy Shapmire.