YoungGunner
Structural
We were asked to engineer a garbage enclosure and see if we could "halve the cost" from what a previous engineer did. This is a masonry structure, steel columns on the top, supporting a wood roof. One thing I want to verify is whether we could:
1) Justify it as a Risk Category 1 to reduce wind loads and
2) Justify it not needing to be considered for seismic loads.
I get chapter 16 of the IBC doesn't explicitly mention this kind of structure, and it does fall outside of an "agricultural storage structure", but it maintains idea of "incidental human occupancy", especially where it is not intended for any occupancy of any living creature in the first place - it just stores garbage!
Thoughts?
1) Justify it as a Risk Category 1 to reduce wind loads and
2) Justify it not needing to be considered for seismic loads.
I get chapter 16 of the IBC doesn't explicitly mention this kind of structure, and it does fall outside of an "agricultural storage structure", but it maintains idea of "incidental human occupancy", especially where it is not intended for any occupancy of any living creature in the first place - it just stores garbage!
Thoughts?