07-09-2024, 07:02 PM
(07-09-2024, 11:54 AM)tomh009 Wrote: Quite true. But because they are so simple, it would not be difficult to add concrete columns and/or supporting walls (to support the upper walls) without massively disrupting the basic warehouse steel/concrete box. Essentially the ground-floor warehouse would be as is, you don't use any of it for supporting the upper floors, instead building the supports either just outside the existing walls or in the interior of the existing warehouse.
It really isn't worth doing this. It's much cheaper, easier, faster and environmentally better to knock it down, recycle the steel and building an actual permanent structure in its place. These kind of buildings are worthless and are almost always designed to be temporary. Nobody would want to spend the money and time to retrofit something like that.