Portal Frame Building

This building is a portal frame school gym located in Melton. The building is comprised of a combination of different materials such as precast concrete panels, brickwork and a sheet metal material.
The floor of the gym consists of structural steel members acting as bearers and floor joists, with timber floor boards.

The portal frame of the gym is expressed externally, with the use of pre cast concrete panels as the cladding at the base of the wall, and a steel sheet cladding at the top of the wall.
The image also shows diagonal cross bracing for the portal frame, and the downpipes from the box gutter connected to steel columns and into the concrete pad footings.

This image above shows the rigid base connection between a steel column and a concrete pad footing. The steel column is also connected to the concrete panel through a bolted cleat shown in the image.
An interesting element of this connection is that the pad footing is raised out of the ground, when usually pad footings are positioned below ground.