Ordinance 2367 - Laserfiche WebLink

[ •_ • • 100 pounds for: where seats are not fixed in places of public assembly, stores and ground floors of hotels and of- fice buildings . 125 pounds for: garages, 'except as elsewhere herein provid- ed, warehouses, factories and workshops, except in special un- usual cases to be approved by the Superintendent of Buildings. Garages for Motor :rack storage shall be designed for the actual wheel loads of the trucks to be stored, with a minimum uniform load of 125 pounds per square foot. 150 pounds for: armories, drill rooms and riding academies. Stairways shall be designed for not less than fifty (50) pounds per square foot, except for places of public assembly, which shall be designed for not less than seventy-five (75) pounds per square foot. All buildings hereafter erected and not herein specifical- ly described shall be constructed amply strong for the purpose intended. Plana for all buildings shall show the location of heavy machinery, or other unusual loads, if any, and the live load. per square foot the building is designed to carry under full working conditions. The specified live loads, other than roof loads, and the loads of heavy machinery, etc. , may be red_uced for garages and all other buildings, except warehouses, as follows: Ten per cent. (10%) on beams, girder e and columns carrying one hundred (100) square feet of contiguous floor area; fifteen per cent . (15c410) on beams, girders and columns carrying two hundred (200 ) square feet of contiguous floor area; twenty-five per cent. (25;':) on bea,is, girders and columns carrying three hundred (300 ) square feet, or more, of contiguous floor area. Por intermediate floor areas the reduction shall be interpolated. For concrete flat slab construction, reduction of live loads is permitted in columns, piers and foundations only. -2-