Thanks for your insight. The information from the Carnegie Pocket Companion was very helpful. Looks like the loading requirements have not changed much over the years!
I am currently working on a renovation of an old historic hotel designed in 1928. Any idea what the required design live loads were in the 1920's (for the rooms and the assembly areas)? There are no surviving drawings of the building. The entire structure is cast in place concrete.
I am designing an apartment building with three levels of wood framing above 1 story of below grade parking. I expect to use 12" thick concrete basement walls on all four sides of the basement parking garage. The top of the 8" thick concrete podium slab supporting the three levels of wood...
