JAE, i agree with you on pole buildings. Exactly why I don't have much experience dealing with them. It was a request from the owner. My approach may be to try to sway the owner back to conventional framing. It just makes more sense I think in the long run. Thanks everyone for your...
I considered extending the slab edge below frost, but here in PA the frost depth is approx. 36". At that point, it almost negates the cost savings of using a pole building structure. I might as well just use conventional frost wall construction with conventional framing. Do you have any other...
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...
Thanks for the input. I'm actually a young architectural designer trying to learn as much as i can. I am designing a small 2000 SF, 1 story wood framed addition to a daycare building. I was just curious if I could get away without reinforcing the footings, even though it seems that it is...
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...
