How Snow and Ice Stress Structural Integrity What is a snow load? Snow loads indicate the amount of additional force pressing down on a building…
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Part 2: Understanding Environmental Loads Part one of this series on construction loads covered the basics of dead loads and live loads. Now let’s look…
How Recent Natural Disasters Affect Steel Building Construction We’ve all watched in awe as natural disasters strike with increasing frequency and violence. Blizzards, hurricanes, floods,…