I recently finished a structural assessment on a church building that was built in 1917. The building is comprised of 55-foot long 9-ply wood trusses with 2x8 roof joists spanning 12-feet at 16-inches on-center perpendicular to the trusses. There are two specific deficiencies that I would like...
Working on a rehab project of a four story multi-family apartment building. The front balcony beam (running parallel to railing) was water damaged to the point of needing to be replaced. Contractor replaced the beam per my recommendation and I was out there doing a QA this morning. While doing...
Hi fellow structural engineers. I was recently out on an investigation of a one-story wood frame structure located in Oklahoma built in the 1970’s. The ceiling gypsum board was showing major straight-line cracks across the seams of the panels and diagonal cracking at air conditioning...
