hokie, The criteria for all precast came from the owner who has another facility of similar construction and they want to match. I understand, the Architect and the owner has been working on it for a while, and the Structural engineer (that'd be me) has just been brought on board.
Brad, thanks...
Thanks everyone for your input.
The building I am working on has double tee roof with precast columns and pocketed spandrel beams where they support tees. Facade will have architectural precast panels with continuous ribbon windows all around, so I am thinking of making beam-column joints rigid...
I have got to design this precast building,and being new to the precast (never designed precast building before), I am wondering who is actually responsible for designing primary structural members such as precast beams and columns (EOR or precaster's engineer)? Can anyone with precast...
