Hi all. I'm looking at a steel pavilion for a friend and am looking for some confirmation/guidance. I mostly work with wood-framed structures so this easy project is challenging me more than it probably should. As you can see below it is a pavilion with 3 steel a-frames/bents/cranked beams...
Hi everyone, I've got an interesting project here that I'd like to see if anyone has any insight on.
The owner of an auto shop hung a 450 lb. furnace from a steel roof beam. The city found out and is now requiring seismic bracing for the furnace, so the owner called us to take a look. See the...
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I'd like to get some input on this project I am working on. The client owns an A-frame cabin that was built in the 1960s in an extremely high snow load area (around 250 psf ground snow load). The A-frame is constructed with 3x10 beams spaced at 48" o.c. with 2x6 T&G running...
Hi everyone, I've got a situation here with a proposed fix that I'm curious if anyone has some input on. I have posted a picture below of the second floor framing plan for a home that is going to be remodeled. The two bubbled walls are to be removed to open up the kitchen. When I was at the home...
Hi all, wanted to get some feedback on this. A potential client approached me saying that they are wanting to buy this home, but the inspector noticed that the 5 1/8" x 16 1/2" glulam beam in the garage has some large holes drilled through it for the garage door opener. See the drawing below for...
Would like to get some feedback on this. Client has an approx. 27' long LVL beam across his family room to bear the second floor joists above. The beam currently breaks over a bearing post at approx. 9'. The client would like to remove the bearing post.
Another engineer wrote a report for the...
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I have been asked to engineer a set of floating stairs for a residential project. I have attached the PDF from the steel fabricator below. The idea is that the treads are HSS 10x2x1/4, and each tread is to weld to a 1" thick x 10" tall "spandrel" plate that forms the exterior...
Hi, thanks for taking the time to read my post. I wanted to put some thoughts I have about residential lateral design out here and see if anyone has some advice or words of comfort lol.
I've been working at this engineering firm for a couple of years, and thus far my training has mostly been on...
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A discussion in our office lately has been about tall restrained pin-pin foundation walls. We've had quite a few residential projects come in lately where they have tall rooms underneath garages (15' tall theater room, 20' tall sports court, etc.). The discussion originally...
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I am an EIT working toward my stamp. I've been working at this company for 1.5 years on mostly small commercial projects. I was given a new project where a homeowner wants to cut a 3' door in his existing basement and build an exterior stairwell to access the basement. My boss said...
