Abstract
The highly versatile Prefabricated frame method, supposedly used for low- and medium-rise reinforced-concrete buildings, was developed. This method is characterized by such aspects that the beams are thin U-shaped precast members in which the bottom longitudinal reinforcements and the stirrups are embedded, and the longitudinal reinforcements are joined by lap joints. Advantages of this method are ; the members are light and thus it requires only a slight crane to execute, and relatively simple bar arrangements enables prefabrication in two directions. In this paper, as we got two actual buildings to apply the construction method, the outline of the method and the results of the construction are reported. From the results, it can be concluded that reduction of both the time for completion and the amount of work have been confirmed in those two construction cases. And the costs of construction were approximately equivalent to those in conventional methods
