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I have a client who wants to build a wood post pole building for his new business. I do not have alot of experience with pole building design, so I have a question regarding the concrete floor slab heaving. If there is no frost wall, what prevents the slab edge from heaving? The building will...

Quick question....is it a code requirement to reinforce concrete footers with rebar? In what situations do you think its ok not to reinforce?

Hello All, Hoping someone can help me out. I understand on a typical gabled pre-engineered metal building frame that there are outward thrusting forces at the column bases and that you counteract that by using either hair pins or tie-rods between columns. My question is, do those same outward...