A beam is a very long, horizontal structural piece that transports and supports weight above it, namely a squared piece of timber or engineered timber or a metal girder.
Sutton Suzuki Architects
The beams of this room have mortise holes where other beams connected with tenons.
Birdseye Design
Steel may rust as quickly as overnight. A primer was applied to those steel beams, giving them their blackened look.
Equinox Architecture Inc. – Jim Gelfat
This wall opening is created by steel girders. The posts are perpendicular and the beam is horizontal.
Quezada Architecture
Two steel beams support the roof material of this covered walkway.
Designs Northwest Architects, dan Nelson
Glulam, or glue-laminated, beams are suprisingly more powerful than a solid piece of timber.
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