How to grow growing houses? Let's take a look at how these two types of growing houses are built.
Figure 10. Site preparation
Figure 11. Structural steel assembly. Photo courtesy of Arch Insupanel Co., Ltd.
The growing house construction consists of site preparation, foundation & steel work and wall & roof construction, in large. Different from the construction of a common house, that of a mushroom growing house requires mounting of the shelf structures, (refer to Figure 6 & 8).
Most growing houses for both temporary and longer use have its floor covered with plastic films, styrofoam for insulation and wire mesh and concrete, with the shelf and wall frames (columns and posts) uprighted on the concrete slab (see Figure 5, 6, 7 & 8).
Steel channels must be well anchored into the foundation. The assembly and installation methods are shown left and below. C channel for columns and posts and the shelf framework are welded to the base plate and then anchored to the foundation with anchor bolts. All the channels, shelf-frames, struts and exposed anchor bolts must be galvanized (plated with zinc) for corrosion protection.
Figure 12. Note the steel frame installation.
Figure 13. Steel C channel frame, anchor bolts, base plate and concrete slab
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