SPECIFICATIONS

AND BUILDING
CODES
N S C P 2 01 5

(INTRODUCTION)
DEAD LOADS
- consist of weight of all materials of construction incorporated into the building or other structure,
including but not limited to walls, floors, roofs, ceilings, stairways, built-in partitions, finishes,
cladding and other similarly incorporated architectural and structural items, and fixed service
equipment's, including the weight of cranes.

- the actual weights of materials and constructions shall be used in determining dead loads for
purpose of design. In the absence of definite information, it shall be permitted to use the minimum
values in Table 204-1 and 204-2.

- floors in office buildings and other buildings where partition locations are subject to change shall
be designed to support, in addition to all other loads, a uniformly distributed dead load equal to
1.0kPa
LIVE LOADS
- Live loads shall be the maximum loads expected by the intended use or occupancy but in no case
shall be less than the loads required by this section.

- loads of varying magnitudes and/or positions caused by the use of the structure

- Floor Live Loads

◦ Floors shall be designed for the unit live loads as set forth in Table 205-1. These loads shall be taken as the
minimum live loads of horizontal projection to be used in the design of buildings for the occupancies listed,
and loads at least equal shall be assumed for uses not listed in this section but creates or accommodates
similar loadings.
◦ Where it can be determined in designing floors that the actual live load will be greater than the value shown
in Table 205-1, the actual live load shall be used in the design of such buildings or portions thereof. Special
provisions shall be made for machines and apparatus loads.
LIVE LOADS
DESIGN WIND PRESSURE
(SIMPLIFIED METHOD)

1. Determine risk category, see Table 103-1

2. Determine the basic wind speed (V) for the applicable risk category (see Figure 207A.5 – 1A,B,C

3. Determine wind load parameters

◦ Exposure category B,C or D, see Section 207A.7
◦ Topographic factor, Kzt see Section 207A.8 and 207A.8-1

4. Enter figure to determine wind pressures Pnet9 see Figure 207E.5-1

5. Enter figure to determine adjustment for building height and exposure, ƛ see Figure 207E.5-1

6. Determine adjusted wind pressure Pnet see Figure 207E.5-1.

DESIGN WIND PRESSURE
Pnet = ƛ Kzt Pnet9

Where ;

ƛ = adjustment factor for building height and exposure from Figure 207E.5-1

Kzt = topographic factor as defined in Section 207A.8

Pnet9 = net design wind pressure

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DESIGN WIND PRESSURE
DESIGN WIND PRESSURE
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