Load-bearing wall

In the birth of the skyscraper era, the concurrent rise of steel as a more suitable framing system first designed by William Le Baron Jenney, and the limitations of load-bearing construction in large buildings, led to a decline in the use of load-bearing walls in large-scale commercial structures.

[1] The materials most often used to construct load-bearing walls in large buildings are concrete, block, or brick.

[4] Depending on the type of building and the number of floors, load-bearing walls are gauged to the appropriate thickness to carry the weight above them.

Without doing so, it is possible that an outer wall could become unstable if the load exceeds the strength of the material used, potentially leading to the collapse of the structure.

Due to the immense weight of skyscrapers, the base and walls of the lower floors must be extremely strong.