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I have a demo contractor that was to cut away a concrete beam framed into a round concrete column. The building is about 80 years old. A demo saw was used and the angle was wrong, they cut through the spiral tie reinforcing, about 40" of vertical length...
48" wide, 8" hollowcore planks arrived at jobsite this morning with approximately 1/3 of them have at least one crack in the top surface aligned with the cores. Contractor said it is typical, but I've never seen or heard of it happening before. I can't seem to find any guidance on how to...
I'm trying to figure out why the ground snow loads in the new New York State building code are lowered in a majority of the state. I am having a hard time designing to the lower loads, like I'm missing some calculation factors that bring the roof loads back to the old numbers anyway.
Does...
My old boss is telling his clients that I'm on a leave of absence, when in fact I'm starting my own company. He is aware that I'm not coming back. On top of that, my email account is still active and he has been receiving those emails for the last two months.
I've been trying to see if this...
I typically specify 4%-6% air content in foundation walls, upstate NY so freezing is a problem. I just got some concrete test results that show some of the trucks have air contents as low as 1.5%.
Does anyone have any suggestions on how to fix this without having them remove all the bad...
This residential basement wall is showing vertical cracks, full height, in nearly every filled core. I am under the belief that the grout froze and expanded before it cured. I'm in upstate NY and this was done around 2 weeks ago, so freezing temps is highly likely.
8" wall, reinforced at...
NCMA perscribes flashing to break the bond at the bottom of a cmu wall in a pre-manufactured building to in effect create a pin connection. This is required to account for the H/100 drift that the metal building engineers design too. We would like to use this detail, but we need supporting...
