Section 2 of Approved Document A provides prescriptive guidance for sizing 'certain residential buildings of traditional construction'.
Provided all of the various limitations of the section are adhered to, explicit consideration of wind loading etc. is not required and the walls can be sized...
Richard,
Your response is greatly appreciated and covers the kind of explanation of the various load cases within the output provided that I was hoping for; it also confirms my own research.
I'm a Structural Engineer, appointed to design various support brackets for a pipe run analysed using Caesar II, however the Mechanical Engineer responsible for the pipe analysis seems content to press print all, fire off reams of information (most of which is likely irrelevant to me) and is...
