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    Stair Design/Drawings

    Here is a model and the corresponding sketches I used to develop some drawings. However, the way you draw them differs between offices. **EDIT**: I left the sizes, dimensions, and details out because this was for architectural review, but that's how our office likes to display stairs. Only a...
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    ASCE 7-16 Snow Drift on Adjacent Buildings

    If it makes you feel any better, I just ran a calc through a different spreadsheet got a 52.6 psf design surcharge with a 20 psf balanced snow load making the drift loading 72.6 psf. Edit: I don't have time to review your calcs but I have reviewed the spreadsheet we use many times and it's...
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    Live Load on Security Fences.

    I've designed for wind, live, dead, and seismic. **The design was approved by the building department this morning.
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    Live Load on Security Fences.

    The fence is 14' tall because the architects for google think it looks official. The fence is blocking a food delivery route, so unless a gaggle of programmers are really hungry I don't think there'll be an issue with security breaches.
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    Live Load on Security Fences.

    I genuinely enjoy that I expected this to be a simple and short answer, but instead, I got a 290-page paper on designing for military-level threats and suggestions to design for thousands of protesters hahaha. I should've been more specific.
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    Live Load on Security Fences.

    No, it's a 14'-0" tall HSS picket fence and gate. I already submitted to the B.D. applying the 300# concentrated at various locations simultaneously. It was going to work either way as this was a very stout fence but I was just wondering if there was a typical way of loading these.
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    Live Load on Security Fences.

    There isn't a serious threat level as this is an unoccupied area of campus. Mainly just a security fence in front of a loading dock.
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    Live Load on Security Fences.

    What kind of live load would you apply to a 14'-0" tall security fence? I usually try to incorporate the handrail loading (50 plf or 200#-300# concentrated) but it doesn't apply intuitively in this instance.
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