Just design it to cantilever? Super easy for single story. Two story would be a bit niggly as you'd need midfloor support on the existing building side - may be tricky to attach. The post fire load here is only 0.5kPa though so they're pretty small loads
Ah yes, lawyers, the exact kind of client Ron was discussing...
Our code sadly does not give "limits" - it gives "recommended limits" which means you can still be sued even if you meet them :)
The plasterboard one is particularly baffling as it's based on H/300 testing data but, if you look at...
Interesting, our Code racking limit is H/300 under a 1/25 year event - significantly more friendly than your limit
I think this is too relaxed personally but that's the world we live in eh
Our beam deflections are L/300 to L/500 depending on the particular case, but I don't think these work so...
Yea basically that - the house is two story but roof over the ground floor extends outwards like a skirt to create some sort of inspired architectural design/expensive engineering headache
I know what you mean about the $$ thing - it is so incredibly frustrating, especially in residential...
This topic coming at you from some office musings
In the residential world it's pretty common to get lovely things such as a house on the side of a hill facing an ocean
These sites get the lovely combo of both higher wind loads due to the ocean/terrain combined with regular/reliable winds i.e...
This question is amazing to me
Here, you inspect basically everything you ever design, usually multiple times throughout the process
On a high-end architectural house I could easily do 20 site inspections throughout the build
As engineers we have a relatively high level of control over these...
We use Dropbox for Business so definitely not the only ones
I use Google Drive for my personal files / side hustle job files
They are both great and shit in different ways, I don't think there's much reason to go either way
I avoid OneDrive though as I have a theory that everything Microsoft...
All we have to do is get them to build a fully air sealed subfloor
Then we can assume that the air will behave like an incompressible fluid as it cannot escape and thus our shear capacity will go through the roof....
Theoretically looks fine but seems like a sitation for a 4x4 instead?
The 2x6 is going to look like shit in a year or two after some sun gets onto it
And, as JAE said, second order effects will kick in as it moves with the sun - I can imagine you'll get significant sag in the beam above as the...
Normally the serviceability condition (in my world anyway) would be done to check whether the concrete section cracks under daily loading
The goal of this is to use the full concrete section properties for stiffness
In this case, there is a triangular stress-strain distribution above and below...
A picture would tell a thousand words here. If you've got a crack travelling 3 storys down a brick building and into a foundation then I would be very very careful with getting involved and making sure you were certain of what was going on before speccing a repair
Are you sure that the issue...
