I was just notified that a post-frame building I designed has the posts installed, but the treated section of the post ends about 3" below the top of the 4" concrete slab. This leaves the rest of the untreated column above the soil, but still against the inside of the concrete floor. I am using...
I'm in Minnesota and I engineered a custom home with a three story below grade foundation system on a lake. The owner owns a construction company and I had them install a permanent sheet pile retaining wall to lower the lateral soil load on the basement walls around the house. The foundation...
I have a barn floor using white oak joists. I am trying to get a capacity for the floor, but in the NDS the bending stress for white oak is less than that of Spruce Pine Fir which is what we have around here. The problem is that I know that white oak is denser and stiffer for the equivalent size...
I have run into a problem that I have not had brought to me before. One of my projects has multiple 40x150 storage unit buildings with continuous slabs. Each slab has a step about midway. The slab is 4" thick with a thickened edge perimeter, and the step is 12" thick. I went out and inspected...
