When calculating horizontal wind loadings and designing the racking resistance of the timber frame, Would you design Plot 1 for both windward and leeward forces? or windward only?
The two properties will be connected through party wall straps effectively which provide some level of racking...
We have a fairly tall steel frame building bearing on to an existing 600mm thick RC slab. At the braced bays however the uplift is quite excessive and i am struggling to get a decent number of Resin Anchor fixings to work (i am using the Hilti Profis design and it is asking for 16no. M30s).
My...
We have an unusual detail where we have our cladding rails to the inside face of the column. We cannot put column stays in to provide torsional restraint to outer flange as the stays would puncture through the cladding. Has anyone detailed torsional restraint without stays? We also have angle...
We are working with an architect who wants to use timber posts to support an entrance canopy. The architect does not want to see the bottom of the post. We have proposed the attached detail, where the ground level finish is gravel. i am concerned about the softwood timber potentially degrading...
Typically I have used the value of 0.1 but have been told in the past that taking 0.5 is more realistic and that 0.1 is on the conservative side. The detail would be checking sliding in a small residential building with the dpc between the underside of the ground floor slab and the masonry...
