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Proposed Ten Storey Commerial Building Group Five 1
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BUILDING DATA

No. Of storeys 13 No.

Dimensions:
Length L 35.289 m
Width W 26.273 m
Height H 39 m
Storey height h 3m

Building is a rigid frame

Foundation conditions Black Cotton Soil

Reference Material

Code of Practice, Earthquake Design for Kenya

Building classification

Class A

Earthquake Zone

Eldoret, Zone VII

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Building Wieght (W)

1 Raft foundation

length L = 35.289 m
Width w = 19.5 m
Depth h = 0.15 m
Concrete density rc = 24 KN/m3

Load = 2,477 KN

2 Basement Floor Slab

Length L = 35.289 m
Width w = 19.5 m
Depth h = 0.15 m

Load = 2,477 KN

3 1st to 13th floor

slab
Basement A= 922.136 m2
Ground fl A= 956.3885 m2
1st-10th fl A= 8206.1 m2
Roof flr A= 975.9 m2

load 39,818 KN
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Beams

Depth h 0.45 m
Width b 0.2 m
Beam swt 2.16 KN/m

Length L 5571.39 m

Load 12,034 KN

Walls

Height h 3m
thickness b 0.2 m
unit wt rw 20 KN/m3
Wall swt 12 KN/m

Length
Basement 117.174 m
GF 241.6 m
FF 141.62 m
2nd-9th fl 1,190 m
10F 145 m
RF 76.777 m

total 1,913 m

Load for 13 floors 22,951 KN

 load for each floor 1765.46 KN
Stairs 2433.6 KN
Lift 1554 KN
Glass 2188.8 KN
columns 5241.6 KN
Total dead load , W 91,176 KN

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LOAD DISTRIBUTION TO FLOORS AND ROOF

To roof

ft =0.004F(hn/DS)2

ft not less than 0.15F

where:
hn : height of uppermost storey
above base level

DS : plan dimensions of the

lateral structural system

F C.W

cp3 C coeff from from table 2

chap V

part 2 C 0.023

F 2,097 KN

ft 0.0148421647 KN

the remainder is distributed to the storeys as follows

 fx =

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where :
wx : proportion of load apportioned to
storey x.

wi : proportion of load wi apportioned to

storey i

hi : height of storey i above base

fx : proportion at floor x.

Floor height, m fx, KN

1 3 3
2 6 6
3 9 9
4 12 12
5 15 16
6 18 19
7 21 22
8 24 25
9 27 28
10 30 31
11 33 34
12 36 37
13 39 41
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