How is the first floor of a 100 story building able to hold all that weight?
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Skyscrapers have an internal steel skeletal structure that is handling all of the weight. Not the floor itself.
If you could go into the basement of any tall building you will see a lot of massive columns scattered throughout the floor. The weight of every floor above is being handled by the combined strength of the columns that basically run the entire height of the building.
At each floor steel beams are bolted to the main support columns and the weight of the floor is handled by those horizontal beams, so each floor has it’s own support structure that is tied to the main support columns.
The taller the building, the more vertical steel columns you need to handle and distribute the weight.
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