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Steel Deck for Equipment Support

Steel Deck for Equipment Support

Steel Deck for Equipment Support

(OP)
My elevator contractor uses the steel deck to support the transformer and elevator controller and claims that the support will be embedded in the concrete when the concrete is poured.

How should I tell the contractor they are wrong and they have to remove the equipment and support the equipment to the finished concrete later.

RE: Steel Deck for Equipment Support

Site instruction?  Letter?  Email?  Whichever, just make sure he gets the message that he won't be paid unless he follows your direction.  If you don't have enough clout, the structural engineer does.

RE: Steel Deck for Equipment Support

(OP)
The CM and the Architect have no problems for the installation which I disagree.  I will keep pushing.

Thanks.

RE: Steel Deck for Equipment Support

Construction Managers (if such a thing exists) and Architects are mostly ignorant of how structures work.

RE: Steel Deck for Equipment Support

not sure I fully understand, but embedded plates of this nature are used commonly in industrial buildings

RE: Steel Deck for Equipment Support

i am currently doing an elevated metal deck slab supporting transformers equipment. embedded are small channels supporting the transformer.

so yeah the supports are embedded by around 3".

but then again your transformer maybe different from my transformer coz i dont have elevators.

RE: Steel Deck for Equipment Support

The OP said the equipment will be supported on the metal deck, then the concrete slab cast around the supports.  Cart before the horse.

RE: Steel Deck for Equipment Support

(OP)
Thanks hokie66.

 

RE: Steel Deck for Equipment Support

i see...yes, thats dumb

RE: Steel Deck for Equipment Support

LOL- the architect has no problems with it huh? They generally are not going to care about something like that if you cannot see it and it doesn't affect their fire rating. But a good architect would say "That is up to my structural engineer, not me.", and stay out of it. Same with the CM, back your decision not question it.

If I am feeling particularly smart-@## that day I may say "If you want to hire another engineer to sign and seal your support design I will review it."

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