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I'd rephrase this to say the core target safety margin was already in place. I don't think there's any argument about LRFD creating new...

I don't know that it is more accurate or consistent, but it is more accepted. ASD will be dead and gone when all of us that learned it...

The thing to worry about with shear tabs and axial loading in the beams is slip in slotted holes. Most shear tab connections have...

Have you met people? Of course they aren't! Wouldn't have to. As long it holds long enough for the snow to develop sufficient...

But that's how it was before, too. We factored down for serviceability (0.75), didn't factor for ASD, and factored up for LRFD (1.6)...

The previous factored up wind load was based on a 50 year mean recurrence interval. So, statistically, we designed the building for the...

I'm in the split camp. Like XR, I want to make money, but I would prefer to do it using the best data and methods we can devise.

Steel did this nicely. There's no allowable stress design in steel anymore - just allowable strength design. It's based on the LRFD...

@JoshPlumSE : yes, it's about getting to strength level, but it's also about consistent reliability and probabilities of failure across...

Pretty sure most modern codes no longer allow those? There may be something in local codes that let you do it, but unless it's...

Ohhh. Got it. That makes sense. So yeah, steel for sure. Sized for the load.

I'm aware of it - have a family member that had planned to use it as their siding, but never got around to the project. It was at its...

I agree - mag drilling is usually perfectly acceptable and, depending on the size and age of the column, is often less expensive than...

Looks like it.

Might want to post some sketches/plans/sections. I have no idea what a 'sidewalk shed' is. But as for a 40k load....appropriately...