Can plumbing be placed within a structural element?
Can plumbing be placed within a structural element?
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I recall something in the building code (plumbing code) that does not allow any plumbing to be placed within a wall, or column.. Plumbing can pass through the element with a sleeve or something but it shouldn't be cast directly with the element?
Anyone have any code experience on this topic? The designer wants to run a roof drain right down the center of a concrete column that has been oversized due to some cantilever action so I am not concerned with the loss in capacity for axial or flexure.
Anyone have any code experience on this topic? The designer wants to run a roof drain right down the center of a concrete column that has been oversized due to some cantilever action so I am not concerned with the loss in capacity for axial or flexure.






RE: Can plumbing be placed within a structural element?
RE: Can plumbing be placed within a structural element?
I think the main problem is getting the different crafts (plumbers, rodbusters, etc.) to play nice with each other.
RE: Can plumbing be placed within a structural element?
RE: Can plumbing be placed within a structural element?
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RE: Can plumbing be placed within a structural element?
It was a really bad idea as most of them were bulging and some split open due to freezing action.
Many also had wet organic debris piled up in the bases creating a continued environment for corrosion. Galvanizing eventually gives away.
Again, a bad idea.
RE: Can plumbing be placed within a structural element?
RE: Can plumbing be placed within a structural element?
However as the Structural Engineer you end up becoming the diplomat between the Plumber, Reo fixer and PT Installer, Hydraulic consultant and builder.
All part of the fun game we play.
"Structural Engineering is the Art of moulding materials we do not wholly understand into shapes we cannot precisely analyse, so as to withstand forces we cannot really assess, in such a way that the community at large has no reason to suspect the extent of our ignorance." Dr. Dykes, 1976
RE: Can plumbing be placed within a structural element?
But you see a lot of gas station canopy failures, too, so maybe they're not the best example.
RE: Can plumbing be placed within a structural element?