Repair & upgrade of a manufactured steel building

[charliealphabravo]

A client is asking if I would provide engineered drawings to repair/upgrade a pre-engineered metal building. I understand that one or two girder/column bents at one end have been damage by snow drifting as the result of a newer adjoining addition that extends above the roof line of the metal building.

Typically I would leave any analysis and design of the superstructure to a metal building manufacturer who specializes in that type of thing. Does anyone have any experience with asking a Nucor-type company to provide an estimate for repair/replacement of a portion of a building? I could provide the design criteria and scope of repair (EOR work) and then they could provide estimates and eventual engineered drawings (Delegated). Do they often do additions and partial replacement of girders/purlins or do they only do new construction?

Thanks in advance.

 

[msquared48]

I would call a local company and see if they wanted to go there.

Mike McCann
MMC Engineering

 

[ztengguy]

Any thoughts to telling them that fixing it and expecting a different result next time it snows is insane?

 

[charliealphabravo]

I found a local metal building manufacturer and they can do exactly what my client needs.