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ARCHITECTURAL BULKHEADS THE INSIDE STORYThe Bulkhead is quite often one of the features, designed by the architectural team to enhance key focus areas in their design plans. Reception areas, high profile meeting rooms and boardrooms are enhanced through the use of bulkheads. More often than not, bulkheads placed in these “key” or “high profile” areas are a mass of intricate curves both in the horizontal and vertical planes. Attention to detail is of critical importance both in the design and manufacturing stage in order to achieve this key feature. However , a bulkhead is more than just a creative feature designed to enhance an area. It is in fact a combination of both architectural creativity and structural engineering. A bulkhead once boarded, plastered and adorned with it's electrical and Air-conditioning fittings can regularly exceed 300Kg in weight. Not too weighty you may think, but consider that all this weight is suspended from the concrete slab above you head! Behind the plastered façade hides a mass of structural supports and grids aimed purely at keeping all this weight exactly where it should be. …above your head. |
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