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Thanks for the demonstration. Luckily I'm here in sunny coastal California where nothing much ever happens, until the ground shakes...

I've always assumed that trusses provide will for practical purposes be my trusses, beginning to end, never mind someone else's stamp...

Actually use a bit of what you suggest and one more. Once I looked at what I would like for girder layout, chords/drags/collectors I...

I know I've given scant information on the bigger picture here but basically too much water under the bridge before it ever reached me...

Once I have a better handle on all the required loading (and I haven't already decided that just stick framing it serves the project...

Ultimately it will be my decision to make, no doubt about that. In my jurisdiction (possibly in others too) its common for the EOR to be...

Thank you, I do greatly appreciate the encouraging words. To elaborate a bit more on my initial questioning of the profile and it's...

I do appreciate the imagines are inadequate but they are what I have at the moment. Ultimately there well be a full design package...

Very useful, just the kind of insight I needed. Thanks KootK.

I've lurked around the site for a number of years now, offering my $0.02 occasionally (maybe two-bits with inflation and tariff). I now...

OK, I'll start with a couple that are annoying that I see fairly often: 1) Triangular windows in gable end wall that follow tight to...

The terracotta (hollow clay tile?) may be the form work. There are historic proprietary concrete systems that used the clay tile in a...

The set up of the test assembly effectively eliminates one potential failure mode, tearing /splitting of the bottom fibers of the...