I am doing a lot of roof evaluations to determine if existing structures have enough excess capacity for roof mounted solar arrays. I keep running into buildings with pre-manufactured wood trusses. Fortunately, I often have access to drawings that indicate the loads that the trusses were...
I am designing a freezer structure for the first time and was just informed by the freezer consultant that there needs to be a thermal block under the baseplate of each column in the freezer. Interior columns need a 6" thick block and exterior columns need a 10" thick block. This is not a big...
