We are looking at carrying out a mill conversion and wondered if anyone knew how we could assess the load carrying capacity of the brick arch floors without doing insitu load tests?
according to UK Building Regs. Building over 5 storeys must be designed for disproportinate collapse. We are designing a 5 storey structure ( 1 is basement) but are thinking of designing the basement as contiguous piled wall with transfer deck and load bearing masonary above. Because we have 4...