Thanks Jed, Ron and Lufti. This clarification is a big help. I am starting to wonder if our steel contractor was not communicating correctly with his supplier (Nocor). We did get the shop drawing rather quickly from Nucor, but the calcs were not included. The submittal went back and forth...
I am a project manager for a commercial gc in tampa. The SE on my project says he needs the uplift calcs on the open web steel joists before he will approve the shop drawings. Our fabricator (Nucor) is stating that the calcs cannot be determined until the joists are fabricated. This is a cath...