The building is in Vero Beach, Florida. I did contact the Vero Beach Building department and spoke with the Codes and Standards department. They were the ones who told me that during that year it would have been designed under the 1971 code and were also the ones that gave me the info from the...
I am in the process of trying to design a parapet extension for a building that was built in 1973. We have not been able to get ahold of existing drawings and I am trying to make some assumptions based on what the existing CMU wall would have been designed for. The building is 14 feet tall and...
Thanks. I did find that and we are looking to purchase it, but I am in a bit of a time crunch. I do know that the original beam was designed to the working stress design per the 1963 code based on the general notes in the exitsing drawings.
I am trying to confirm the shear strength of a beam that was originally designed to the 1963 code. Based on the current code the beam does not have the proper shear strength, but we want to verify that the beam met the code at the time it was designed. I can't find a copy of the ACI 318-63...
