Looking at a 3 storey terrace house with a hipped stick roof. Rafters are 4x2 at 400 crs with 4x2 collars. Roof on plan is 5.5m wide (front) and 7.7m long (sides). Perimeter walls are full brick 225mm.
Client wants rafter ties removed to form a vaulted ceiling with open plan.
Ridge board in...
We are checking an old building 4 storey building of brick/steel frame construction. Columns internally appear to be cast iron circular hollow sections. Any pointers on technical info/properties of cast iron columns? Building is in UK but any useful info on cast iron columns would be a starter.
I wonder if any autocad users have any experience with the Wacom tablet. We have a Wacom Intuos 3 which is available for us to use and are mostly wondering how useful it may be with digitising from paper drawings for further editing onto autocad. We tried to set it up without much success I...
I am looking to strengthen an existing I section steel beam 10m long to carry a new additional load. Welding is not an option and the top of the flange is also inaccessible. Also depth that can be added below bottom flange is limited.
My thinking at the moment is for a C section bolted to...
We been asked to look into detailing to meet disproportionate collapse requirements for a building under construction. The building is 4 storey block of flats plus basement, approx 24x24m. External walls are cavity 100brick/75cavity/200mm solid block and internal walls 200mm solid block. Hollow...
It is proposed to underpin an existing footing in order to add a new floor over an existing single storey by adding a mass concrete footing approx 600mm wide by 600mm high. The soil bearing capacity is well adequate for the proposed loads and size of footing. The contractor proposes to do this...
