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Yeah they're definitely load bearing. No timber on the bottom levels.

Yeah it'd be interesting to see if the rust is occurring on the inside. As the water has been tracking in and around the steel beam to rust out the bondek underneath.

Thanks all, See below a front on view of the "Staircase" crack. Not sure if my camera is playing games here. The top half of the photos bows down, but the bottom bows up. I'll have to put a straight edge on it. But it looks like the course lines are level - the photo is abit deceptive...

Hi All, I was looking at some brick failure the other day, and thought I'd ask if anyone had seen similar and or know the cause of the failure. See photos below. There is an old bondek slab at the front of a house forming a small veranda. The bricks have localized cracking where it interfaces...

Thanks Everyone. Really appreciated your comments. It's great to know I'm heading in the right direction. Thankyou very much.

Thanks Ilyas. Yes our thinking is along the same lines. Huge thanks! Just on the internal pressure coefficients - as we're only interested on the load on the screen, we were considering the "balcony" as a room and disregarding the unit behind. If you consider the Balcony as a room then the...

Thanks Ilyas for your comments. Very much appreciated. Yes there is a wall 3 or 4 meters behind the screens. This wall is the glazing line for the unit. The screen is mounted on the front edge of the balcony. Its a low rise building only 5 stories and fairly long in regards to its height...

Hi All, We're reviewing the wind loads on a perforated privacy screen that free spans between the slabs of a building screening off the balconies. The screens are of various porosity and shape. Some screens are movable (i.e slide along the front of the balcony) but most are fixed. Very...