In a 2 story building - say 40' L x 20' W with the longer walls being reinforced CMU and the 20' side being spanned by cold formed steel C joists, could the C joists into the CMU wall be counted on at all for lateral force resistance - like a moment frame?
The intent is to have an open floor...
I am at a loss to why I am finding such huge differences between allowable soil bearing capacities in the IBC vs NYC building code.
See the International Building Code table 1804.2 in the below PDF:
http://www-scf.usc.edu/~mosheikh/ibc_chap18.pdf
Table 1804.2 clearly shows gravels as 3000...