Structural Design of Plant Biodiversity Research Center

Abstract

Structural design is the most important design of the building after the necessary of architectural design, the distribution of columns, loads; offer durability, the best prices and the highest degree of safety are the responsibility of the structural designer. In this project, we will do the structural design of the "Plant Biodiversity Research Center. The Center contain four floors, the basement floor, it contains store, Generator and Heating and air conditioning. The ground floor contains Video conference, Kitchen, Cafeteria, Gallery and theater. The first floor contains plant receipt, plant sorting, plant desiccation, plant Packaging, herbarium, seeds store, seeds desiccation, seeds sorting and sifting, seeds Packaging, seeds receipt, plant microbiology lab, Molecular biology lab and Molecular biology lab. The second floors it contains publication store, printing hall, raw material store, and office, and the third floor it contains finance manager, secretary, manager assistant, personnel officer and Archive. With a total area of 4000 m2. This project selected because of the importance to know how to design these buildings, which have design requirements higher than other projects with long spans and big theaters and diversity in the form of the building, by the architectural design. In addition, it has been chosen for the importance of having this center because of the lack of this kind of centers in this area. After completion of the project, we expect to be able to provide structural design of all the structural elements of the project accordance to the requirements of the code.