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  1. Alex M

    Wind Exposure Category "C" or "D"

    Ron, Thank you very much. I kind of lost this battle with building officials, and they would not permit the building unless we change exposure category to "D". In my opinion, they just don't care much about the code and presented information and just defaulting to "D" if it is close to water...
  2. Alex M

    Wind Exposure Category "C" or "D"

    Thanks again, yes there is large body of water, but even at 45 degree angle it appear to be less than 5000 ft required for exposure "D" per ASCE7 diagram (attached). https://files.engineering.com/getfile.aspx?folder=0a4b6290-b469-4ab6-aa2d-49595077b7db&file=Exposer_C_(figure_4).JPG
  3. Alex M

    Wind Exposure Category "C" or "D"

    Thank you for you response WARose. The building is shown with the yellow pin and the yellow lines are showing distances in couple directions. Building will about 5600 feet away from the main coastline. Thanks -Alex
  4. Alex M

    Wind Exposure Category "C" or "D"

    and one morehttps://files.engineering.com/getfile.aspx?folder=94ccfa32-7f68-46e0-a85e-54a9025125ec&file=Exposer_C_(figure_3).JPG
  5. Alex M

    Wind Exposure Category "C" or "D"

    more imageshttps://files.engineering.com/getfile.aspx?folder=a2d84890-740b-44de-9f16-b4a912ce8b7d&file=Exposer_C_(figure_1).JPG
  6. Alex M

    Wind Exposure Category "C" or "D"

    Greetings, I would like to get some opinions on the wind exposure category for the site per the attached images. Thank you in advance to anyone sharing their thoughts on the subject. -Alex...
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