Tmoose -- Yesir, they cut those for fire protection. And yes, at other plants I've always been a fan of just running the fire protection on the screen guard, dog housing it, stripping it for trip hazards, and putting the drops through the guard, but in this case the FP is ran dead nuts under...
KootK,
Part of me wants to think the provisions apply to channels, same as WF, but something in my guy tells me that it doesn't. When I read through the DG2, a lot of their formulation revolved around equivalent sized T shapes, and symmetry and so forth. I'm weary to take an apples to apples...
All,
Thanks for the thoughtful replies.
I'll try and go down the line here...
JStephen -- You would think right? Unfortunately in these big plants during our short shutdown windows we have 1200+ workers spread throughout several dozen disciplines, unions, and so on, and little if any...
Another picture -- and yes that's very much an oval looking circle.https://files.engineering.com/getfile.aspx?folder=88ba8cc2-464e-4488-bb5b-ae5cce004f11&file=holes2.JPG
Hi all and Happy New year!
So, I came into today and walked through the site, and found quite a bit of this, (see attached photo).
The problems here are pretty obvious:
1) Non-engineered web openings
2) Torch cutting these holes
My question, to the best of anyone's knowledge does the AISC...
