Shear walls are walls specifically designed to resist lateral loads, transferring the load from the wall above to the wall below and, ultimately, out through the foundation. This is a critical role in ...

The construction team overcame hurdles to locate the existing shear walls and excavate the ... challenging tasks such as erecting the stair curtain wall. As a result, crews worked nearly 1 million ...

The lower tier of the new stand is formed of a series of structural stepped precast 'staircase'units. The units and the walls ... on beams spanning between a series of 14 precast concrete shear walls ...