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Johnson-Bovey Building
building, Minneapolis, Minnesota, United States
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use of flat slabs
- In construction: The invention of reinforced concrete
In the Johnson-Bovey Building (1905) in Minneapolis, Minnesota, the American engineer C.A.P. Turner employed concrete floor slabs without beams (called flat slabs or flat plates) that used diagonal and orthogonal patterns of reinforcing bars. The system still used today—which divides the bays between columns into column strips…
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