I have a one story building that has a roof pop-up about 4' higher than the main roof centered in the building with clear-story windows all around the pop-up. I would like to brace the popped up roof with steel columns that would be treated as pinned at the foundation and pinned at the main...
I am reviewing an ICC Report for a stucco system that an architect would like to use (ESR-1240). The allowable wind load for the system is 25 psf per section 5.10. It doesn't specify what trib area my component and cladding wind pressure calculations should be based off of. Does anyone here...