Construction of Transfer Plate - from various case studies

To achieve this result, the layout of the podiumstructure can use regularly spaced columns inlonger span design. While the upper floor usingcolumns, load bearing walls and central corearranged in a more congested layout can still bemaintained. What it needs to do toaccommodate the difference in loading is bythe placing in of a transfer plate at the base ofthe tower structure, such that the loading of theupper floors can be taken up and transferreddownward through the podium.