to be approved before the Columbus Board of Historic & Architec- tural Review. To retain the historic look of the building tongue and - from the 1979 build. experience in the assessment of buildings of this era. With this type of methods but also a respect for the historic nature of the building. Brent Wright said, “Keep in mind you’re dealing with a historic building of the building. Each structural component has meaning and repairs the building. They inspected cracks in the brick walls and noted deep damage. They catalogued over 230 beams with over 2,300 connection points and took hundreds of photos to get an accurate record of the condition of each beam and connection point. reputation they have earned in the region revitalizing several of the riverfront warehouses and textile mills from the same era. Scott Laye height of the building. Similar construction of this period did not have the volume of the Iron Works. Laye indicated this fact made the sta- up to the connection points to stabilize the trusses. As we got into the of each steel plate used to stabilize each connection point. Each beam had its own bolt pattern so a template had to be made of each point and those templates were sent to a steel fabricator and then bolted to the connection points. an iron bridge beam between each horizontal beam. Steel cross cable bracing in the upper ceiling added further stabilization to the original construction. With the removal of two layers of the original asphalt shingles and the addition of modern insulation and waterproof mem- brane there was a net reduction of approximately 52,000 pounds from - ciate. “There was a tremendous amount of work done to the facility - tion was completed in such a way that the historic integrity of the building is intact. That in itself is the best statement someone could FM
All photos provided by David Bevans, CFE
“They catalogued over 230 beams with over 2,300 connection points and took hundreds of photos to get an accurate record of the condition of each beam and connection point.”
David Bevans, CFE, is executive director of the Columbus Georgia Convention & Trade Center.
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