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    IRC 2015 Foundation Reinforcing

    Thanks for the feed back. The wall is an 8 foot high 10 inch non reinforced concrete wall on a strip footing for a two story residence. The structural engineer for the home owner is stating that the wall will now without the horizontal reinforcing, require steel perimeter plates bolted to the...
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    IRC 2015 Foundation Reinforcing

    Table R4041.2(1) is new to code and requires one #4 bar top and middle of 8 ft high concrete basement walls. I am reviewing a homeowners claim against the builder that this was not done for his new home construction. Does anyone have a theory on what this reinforcing does for the wall? It is...
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    Experience with Hycrete??

    That is my exactly my feeling however I am asked this question repeatedly and wondering if anyone has had positive experience. It's one of those risk vs reward issues.... high risk for small $$ reward. All of these spaces are occupied by various condo uses which equals big liability. Thanks...
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    Experience with Hycrete??

    Has anyone had experience with using Hycrete as the only waterproofing component of a wall and slab several feet below the water table? Did it perform? Do you know the cost difference? Any other problems?
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    Prefabricated Balconies

    A MEDIUM SIZE BALCONY @ 60 PSF LL IS ABOUT 2-3K WITH DL, PULLING AGAINST NOT A 2X6 STUD WITH A COUPLE OF 8d END NAILS, NEEDS THROUGH BOLTS LVL POSTS AND BACKER PLATES
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    Prefabricated Balconies

    Balconies are aluminum both julliene and full size. They attach by a ledger at the building and steel rods back up to the framing. I was curious if anyone has dealt with these companies. The show an an attachment plate with a couple of holes in it and the rest I believe is going to fall back to...
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    Prefabricated Balconies

    Does anyone have experience with these companies. The architect wants to use prefab. aluminum cable and ledger supported.These are going on all sides of a 5 story wood framed condo. My main concern is connection to wood framing. Typically this is going to come back to me. Connecting steel to...
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    Snow drift adjacent building

    we have a new building a story high than adjacent. Architect wants me to design a sloped roof in the shape of the drift on the existing roof to eliminate snow drift. I have always believed this was not a real solution, but others have gotten away with it. I believe the drift still exists and...
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    Hold Downs - resistance from architect

    The IRC residential building code has a prescriptive design (without holddowns) based on lengths of full height sheathing. I have used a table on the drawings showning required and actural lengths for each walls and story, referencing the table. If that doesnt work hold-downs are required on...
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    Field slotted base plates

    I have several column base plates on a five story building that were slotted in the field to hit misaligned anchor bolts. the columns are on grouted leveling plates. Holes are inward from face of concrete pier by about 1 inch on all four bolts. Steel fabricator want to weld plates over hole...
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    LVL posts crushing plywood & plates

    I am designing a 4 story wood apartment building with some LVL posts with loads approaching 20K. I have asked that all posts be on continuous LVL material, ie no interuption from plates or plywood flooring. The wall panel supplier has questioned this. Am I being unreasonable or is crushing a...
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    Contraction joints in suspended slabs

    I thought the topic was control joints in suspended slabs, sorry?
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    Contraction joints in suspended slabs

    Over the years, I have been called in to investigate concrete slabs on composite metal deck. In all cases, a couple of years after construction, the concrete has cracked with a series of very load noises, startling the occupants. Some of these slabs have also had top reinforcing added over...
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    Loadbearing Structural Clay Tile

    Someone (slideruleeara?) recently posted a link to old Kidder-Parker handbooks They have info on clay tile. There is a clay tile handbook printed in the 50's that would be helpful if you can find one. good luck.
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    This can't be right- an 80', W10x22 I-beam (W), holding a 100k truck?

    There definitely is a moral here somewhere. Our aspiring bridge designer is obviously an intelligent and motivated engineer wanting to learn. But unfortunaltely bridge building is not like say gardening. There are many reason why I don't do electrical engineering, although I had courses in...
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