| 摘要 |
A method of providing a building having emergency shelter apparatus, the method including arranging for a free-span structure to extend across a space designated for a utility room accessible from the interior of the building, providing emergency shelter apparatus for the designated space, said emergency shelter apparatus being formed as the accessible utility room, and securing the emergency shelter apparatus to the building foundations. The building may be an office or factory, but preferably, the building is a proposed dwelling and said free-span structure is a ceiling structure and including, forming the building about the emergency shelter apparatus with a free-span structure extending across the emergency shelter apparatus. Suitably, the junction between said outer sidewalls and said ceiling structure is concealed such as by plaster, cornice or such like, however, the concealment of the junction is preferably conducted so as to maintain structural independence between the building and the emergency shelter apparatus. |
