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When designing floor joists engineers must check several design properties including moment, shear, bearing and deflection. In this article we

In the last several months, I’ve had many questions about what constitutes a “restrained” concrete member, and what constitutes an

When the site has low to moderate swelling soil an interrupted or narrow spread footing may be used. The Geotechnical

My Post–Tension elevator speech is pretty well rehearsed at this point: “We drape steel cables — tendons — in the

We are doing an exciting renovation in the Conifer area that has a really unique front entry. The entrance evolved

A Raft Slab-on-Grade foundation can be as simple as a 4” thick slab with no reinforcement and a shallow perimeter

Simpson or USP? Each company has a wide range of framing connectors that meets the needs of almost every type

This post is provided by Earthcore SIPs. There are many conditions that determine the effectiveness of any building material to

In the last year I’ve been finding an increase in the number of brick wall failures. Most of the walls

At a recent seminar I attended I was introduced to the Fab-Form product called FASTBAG. This product is brilliantly simple….a

The structural department prefers to use Bentley RAM structural design software for our finite element design needs. The total design

Simple and cost effective, but limited in design capabilities. A wall on grade is just as simple as it sounds.

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