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…
Part 1: Understanding Dead Load and Live Load To appreciate the work of structural engineers, you need some rudimentary knowledge of construction loads. Metal building…