I am designing a wood framed building with a 12 ft basement, retaining about 11.5 ft. The first floor framing sits on an interior shelf in the concrete basement wall.
What load path do you typically use to restrain the top of basement wall and transfer the lateral earth pressure into the first...
I am designing a group of buildings for a summer campgrounds in a high (~60 PSF) snow load area. The buildings will be unoccupied and winterized/unheated during the winter.
Buildings are risk category II
My thoughts regarding snow loads
1. Design snow load using a Ct of 1.0, Risk Category II...
I'm designing a load bearing CMU building with a brick facade (8" cmu, 4" cavity, 4" brick) that has 12 foot window openings.
I would like to keep the brick support to loose lintels and use bond beam lintels for the CMU openings instead of going to wide flange beams with a plate at the bottom...
I've been approached by a GC I work with to review shop drawings for a 3 story office building which was designed a few years ago and the EOR has since retired/isn't reachable.
Would you take on a project like this without independently verifying the design (running calculations etc)?
Is there...
