My inspection department is requiring an engineered design for this townhome project. We can get by with the prescriptive method, but this half wall is driving me nuts. We have not really had to deal with braced walls too much, our state passed a ruling on it; North Carolina. We are an...
We are a very small architectural firm here in the south. We mainly do residential work, but got a little pool house to work on in a community. In the appendix B, they are asking for the wind base shears, Vx=? and Vy=?. An engineer showed me a very easy calculation for this once a very long...
