Fire Resistance in American Heavy Timber Construction by Jesse Heitz

Author:Jesse Heitz
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Springer International Publishing, Cham

New York City, while implementing skeleton frame steel construction later than Chicago, saw the construction of the Asch Building located at 23–29 Washington Place in Manhattan (Fig. 5.4). Designed by architect John Woolley, plans for the 135-ft tall tower were filed in April of 1900, and the building was completed in January of 1901. It was a modern loft building with an iron and steel skeleton frame, trimmed with brick in a Neo-Renaissance style. The metal structural members were encased in terra-cotta fireproofing, similar to its Midwestern pre decessors in Chicago. While lacking a sprinkler system which had been a fairly common feature in large buildings by this time, the building did feature a standpipe system fed by a rooftop water tank that ran the height of the building, to aid in firefighting efforts should a blaze break out.25

Fig. 5.4Firefighting efforts being taken against the 1911 Triangle Shirtwaist Factory fire in the Asch Building (Photograph courtesy of the United States Department of Labor)

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