Thanks everyone for your encouragement and support.
After reviewing the drawings, we were actually ok on a number of the moment connection/beam/column designs that I had originally thought we wouldn't be.
We had to change 3 columns lifts from W12x40s to W12x58s. (Not a huge deal)
Then for...
SteelPE,
The steel supplier we're using always makes ridiculous CO prices, but for some reason still has the job. So we're trying to minimize the cost difference. The last quote we got for steel was over $2000/ton, has that changed?
Slickdeals,
You are correct, the program assumes the column is...
Well, after my concerns I looked a little further into the program, and we have some LL reduction that I wasn't taking into effect for the beam design. So the beams work, but the moments are still a little off. I have to review this further to see what capacity we got from the moment designs...
During shop drawing review, we looked at a few of our composite beam cant. designs again because of the connections used by the detailer.
During this review, we've found that the our program (RAM Steel) designs cant. beams as pinned at the column, so the only moment was that from the cant. When...
