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Thanks for confirming what I suspected. The job has become a build first, engineer later type of mess, and I have to work within the abilities/limitations of the current contractor and budget. This was not my job from the start. I was considering using a reinforced concrete frame, rather than...

In a 2 story building - say 40' L x 20' W with the longer walls being reinforced CMU and the 20' side being spanned by cold formed steel C joists, could the C joists into the CMU wall be counted on at all for lateral force resistance - like a moment frame? The intent is to have an open floor...

the soil is going to be tested, i was just doing prelim stuff from the code when i noticed the ibv vs nyc thing. obviously in the end, testing is the going to give the most realistic bearing capacity numbers.

I figured it was something about being on the more conservative end of things... but the differences were so huge that I figured it must be something else. NYC is the governing code for the project so obviously that is what I would use, I was just nervous about such large discrepancies.

ignore that mention of the "(based off of the UBC)" I can't seem to find how to edit my post.

I am at a loss to why I am finding such huge differences between allowable soil bearing capacities in the IBC vs NYC building code. See the International Building Code table 1804.2 in the below PDF: http://www-scf.usc.edu/~mosheikh/ibc_chap18.pdf Table 1804.2 clearly shows gravels as 3000...