A respected engineer’s finding that support columns and beams in Coral Gables’ landmark City Hall could be structurally ...

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Columns are often used to hold up heavy loads, such as the roofs of buildings. The heavy load pushes on the column, putting it in compression. So, a good column should be very strong in ...

Neel, assistant building engineer of the building division ... According to builders a nine-inch diameter at the base of a column, can support, a maximum column height of 6 feet 9 inches.