- Sopheap
- Burgess Design Inc.
- May 13, 2019
How do you treat Perimeter Seismic Braces in a high rise building when drawing up the Gross Measured Area? Do you treat it like a column or to do go around it like a wall?
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How do you treat Perimeter Seismic Braces in a high rise building when drawing up the Gross Measured Area? Do you treat it like a column or to do go around it like a wall?
Hello Sopheap,
Columns or other building support systems that protrude inward are ignored.
Thanks,