Steel From Pins To The Brooklyn Bridge

 
The great Hentry Bessemer’s experiment with iron to make something with low carbon content resulted in the invention of steel. The perfect mixture steel was flexible than cast iron but stronger than the wrought iron.Steel is one of the most commonly used building materials for making small pins to the famous Brooklyn Bridge.

If we consider the inventions that revolutionized the World history,steel is one among them the most unavoidable piece of object.Have a look at the top awarded steel structures in the world,explore how engineers convert the metallic piece to beautiful  monuments and buildings.

1.Denver Union Station, Denver

Denver’s historic Union Station is a Beaux Arts landmark located on the edge of the city’s central business district. SOM was commissioned to expand and transform this station and the surrounding 14 city blocks into a major regional transportation hub.
SOM structural engineers, working closely with SOM architects, designed the Commuter Rail Train Hall structure, Light Rail (LRT) station platform canopies, several additional steel-and-fabric pavilions, a pedestrian bridge, and a variety of other steel-and fabric canopy structures, all part of the greater Denver Union Station Intermodal Hub, which opened in Spring 2014.



2.Circuit Of The Americas Observation Tower And Austin 360 Amphitheater, Austin, Texas

Capturing the energy of Formula 1 racing in its iconic form, the 250-ft-tall observation tower provides a dramatic focal point for the Circuit of the Americas and a new landmark for Central Texas. The tower was conceived as a visual finale to the central Grand Plaza as well as a dramatic and memorable backdrop to the Austin360 Amphitheater. Evoking the notion of split-second speed, the tower’s unique design anchors visitors’ experience of the complex, fostering a sense of memory and place that is essential to the circuit’s identity.

3.Hilton Columbus Downtown High Street Bridge, Columbus, Ohio

The Hilton Columbus Downtown High Street Bridge is a 105‐ft‐long enclosed glass walkway, with a construction cost of $4.5 million. The unique pedestrian bridge connects the new Hilton Hotel with the adjacent Greater Columbus Convention Center. Entirely supported by a single overhead steel tube and suspended ribs, the all‐glass bridge’s design emphasizes physical and material lightness and visual transparency to join user and pedestrian; purposefully avoiding the external, heavy truss pedestrian bridge aesthetic found throughout the city.


4.Florida Polytechnic University Innovation Science And Technology Building, Lakeland, Fla.

Florida Polytechnic University, Florida’s newest university and only one dedicated to a curriculum of science, technology, engineering and mathematics, started its new campus building program with the 162,000-sq.-ft Innovation Science and Technology Building designed by world renowned architect Santiago Calatrava. This two-story reinforced concrete structures signature element is the 250-ft-long glass atrium shaded by 94 operable louver arms all of which are supported by structural steel boxed plate assemblies spanning up to 72 ft.



5.The Vegas High Roller, Las Vegas
High Roller opened in March 2014, the largest observation wheel ever built at 550-ft high with an approximate cost of $300 million. Caesars Entertainment -- the owner -- wanted its observation wheel to not only be the largest in the world, but to offer its guests the best experience.



Dreams come true

Structural steel companies in UAE and around the world work behind the screen to make the dreams come true,so any great constructions are backboned by strong steel industries in that country ,producing high quality steel materials.” When iron and carbon come together, there emerges steel.To be something stronger and better, you must mostly unite with something else and melt in something else.

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