I designed anchoring for stone blocks (dentil stone, wall band stone, coping stone) into a msonry wall for an existing building in NY. The anchoring design was based on the dead load of the stones. I received comments saying to design for seismic. Can anyone provide guidance on how to go about...
I have a sidewalk shed made up of header beams and cross beams. 2x10 wood planks will be placed over the cross beams (not anchored) for workers to walk on top and do their thing. Can I consider the compression side laterally fully braced for these cross beams because of the wood planks?
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I'm working on a project where they will be lifting an HVAC unit and moving it into the building through a louver. The roof is not flat - we need to design a platform to take the load from the unit/workers. Attached are pdf sketches showing what will be done. Will what we have in mind...
I'm working on a job where they will be removing the lower three courses of brick in order to do concrete spall repair work. We need to shore the existing bricks above. Normally, we would recommend a temporary relieving angle anchored into the backup masonry. However, the wall is made up of (1)...
