CMU up to underside of beam
CMU up to underside of beam
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More than once now I've gotten complaints from contractors on the use of PTA's attached to the bottom flange of a steel beam. Their argument is that once the masonry gets up to the beam its not possible to grout the bond beam course immediately below the beam due to it being blocked by the flange.
Has anyone else run into this problem and what solutions have you come up with. Thanks in advance.
Has anyone else run into this problem and what solutions have you come up with. Thanks in advance.






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Edward Wilkowski, PE, SE
Principal
Micucci Engineering, P.C.
www.micucciengineering.com
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"PTA" - Partition Top Anchors. Link
Acronyms can be a PITA
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BA
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Mike McCann, PE, SE (WA)
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Aside from that, whatever became of doing your own details? Simpson makes a fortune from lazy and uneducated people (I'm saying that's 2 different groups) and in my opinion in most cases they don't do connections very well, only very expensively.
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Regarding acronyms, I was in a meeting once and was listening to the architect and mechanical guy arguing over whether "AC" should go on the roof.
I could tell one was talking about Air Conditioning units, and the other was talking about Asphaltic Concrete, but they didn't know that, they thoght they were discussing the same thing.
"No! We can't have any AC on the roof"
"But where else can we put it?"
Eventually they figured it out. haha
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The problem with abbreviations and acronyms, if you want intelligent answers, is that at least half of us won't know what you mean.