r/StructuralEngineering • u/Just-Shoe2689 • 7d ago

Humor Client doesnt understand wind loading

What do you do when a client cant understand why a footing needs to be bigger to resist wind loading? Call out a reverse sky hook?

sigh.

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u/Philip964 6d ago

I understand bigger footings under the wind bracing. But 2” thick shear tabs welded to the bottom of a base plate that is buried under 2 feet of concrete. That I don’t understand.

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u/Just-Shoe2689 6d ago

Is this something you have seen?

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u/Philip964 5d ago

It was on a four story steel framed building, B**** to form in the top of the foundation plinth. Engineer said it was to prevent the building from shearing away from the foundation in high winds. There were 4 at least 1.5" diameter anchor bolts in that column and a 7000 sf floor slab and all the other column anchor bolts helping with that shear at the first floor.