wall beam

Definitions

Construction

• A special form of reinforced concrete framing, used for some apartment buildings, in which walls between apartments are used as deep, transverse beams supporting one edge of a floor slab below and one above. The deep beams alternate between floors and between columns.
• A header bolted to a wall and used to support joists or beams.

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• Construction