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I have a situation where MEP needs a chase adjacent to a girder after the steel has been fabricated and erected. The floor system is composite metal deck on WF beams / girders. MEP needs 3 ft clear opening and the beams are spaced 9 ft apart. I've checked the girder considering concrete effective flange only on one side and the beams with no studs for the first 3ft and everything checks out OK. My recommendation is to put a pour stop on both sides of the opening and wait for the concrete deck to reach 75% of its strength before cutting the hole in the deck. Is there anything else I should recommend? I was thinking to add some reinforcement to the slab, 1 bar in bottom of a couple adjacent flutes to the opening and hooked reinf perpendicular to the deck near the top of the slab.
The slab has fibers instead of a wire mesh.
Here is a quick sketch:
The slab has fibers instead of a wire mesh.
Here is a quick sketch: